Aerial Tramway Palm Springs California USA-1964: Yellow Tram Car Gliding Across Mountain Cables

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationPalm Springs, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Palm Springs California

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Yellow Tram Car Gliding Across Mountain Cables — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1964 captures the iconic Aerial Tramway in Palm Springs, California. The clip shows a yellow tram car gliding along thick cables against a rugged mountain backdrop, with a prominent metal support tower visible. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, warm color grading with a purple tint, and noticeable grain. The tram moves steadily through the frame, offering a nostalgic view of mid-century mountain transportation and tourism in the desert landscape.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120763785

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 2229 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1964
Reel-level location note: palm springs
Date: 1964 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Palm Springs, California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm footage of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway supports documentary, museum, education, or editorial requests for mid-century California tourism and mountain transportation views.
Period detail: The yellow tram car, cable infrastructure, metal support tower, and purple-tinted 8mm color may show a 1964 visitor record of the Palm Springs aerial tram system in operation.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, holding on the tram car as it crosses the mountain cables rather than staging a formal promotional view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a yellow aerial tram car, suspended steel cables, metal support towers, rocky mountain slopes, dark trees, and a soft purple film cast.
Film character: The footage has a soft 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, slight blur, uneven exposure, and a pronounced magenta-purple color shift.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, travel transition, tourism cutaway, or memory beat for mid-century California mountain access and sightseeing.
Historical context: The scene documents leisure travel infrastructure in a rugged desert mountain setting, with the tramway presented as a visitor attraction rather than an industrial transport system.
Research note: Rights review should account for possible tramway branding, the identifiable Palm Springs location, and any visible visitors or likeness issues separately from film copyright status.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1964 8mm Palm Springs Aerial Tramway footage, vintage California tram car, mid-century mountain tourism, or yellow cable car home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1964 Palm Springs or California travel footage, and then with broader aerial tramway, mountain tourism, or mid-century transportation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Palm Springs Aerial Tramway view with a yellow tram car crossing steel cables near a support tower on a rugged mountain backdrop. — Tram car crossing mountain cables near a support tower.

Palm Springs aerial tram cables span the rocky mountain scene, with a support tower visible at right and the small tram car partly obscured by distance and grain. — Cables and support tower across the mountain slope.

A yellow Palm Springs tram car moves along suspended cables near a lattice support tower, seen through soft 8mm grain and a purple-tinted mountain background. — Yellow tram car beside the support tower.

Closer 1964 view of a yellow Palm Springs Aerial Tramway car gliding past rock cliffs and evergreen branches, with passengers possibly visible through the windows. — Yellow tram car passing cliffs and trees.

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