New York USA-1962: Red Cable Car In Operation

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 New York

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Red Cable Car In Operation — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from 1962 shows a red cable car in operation against a backdrop of bare winter trees. The octagonal cabin, with white-trimmed windows, glides along its cable line, offering views of the forested mountain landscape. Inside, passengers are visible through the glass. The clip transitions to a green station building and a stone archway, capturing the mechanical operation of the cableway system. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, with natural lighting and a handheld perspective typical of home movie recordings.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 122657724

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: No
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 1182 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: zoo
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1962 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: New York, 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s New York home-movie footage for productions needing a brief cable car or mountain transport insert with winter resort atmosphere.
Period detail: The red octagonal cabin, white-trimmed windows, bare trees, and 8mm color stock support an early-1960s recreational cableway setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches the cabin pass and then shifts toward the station machinery, giving the clip a visitor-shot observation rather than staged coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red cable car cabin, overhead cable, passengers behind windows, bare winter trees, a green station building, railings, and a stone archway.
Film character: The footage has saturated 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a concise transport cutaway, travel transition, resort memory beat, or mechanical-operation insert.
Historical context: The clip documents recreational aerial transport in a wooded New York setting without making claims about the specific site or operator.
Research note: People appear inside the cabin, so likeness review may be needed; no visible logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s New York cable car, vintage 8mm aerial tramway, red mountain cableway, and home movie resort transport.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1962 New York travel footage, and then with broader vintage cableway or mountain recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 New York 8mm frame showing a red cable car cabin with white-trimmed windows moving past bare trees. — A red cable car cabin moves along its line above a wooded winter slope.

Red octagonal cable car cabin with passengers visible through the windows against bare trees in New York archival footage. — The red cabin hangs from the cable with passengers faintly visible inside.

8mm frame showing a green cableway station building beneath a dark structure, with railings and mechanical elements visible. — The view shifts toward the station building and cableway structure.

New York archival home-movie frame showing the cableway station area beneath a stone archway and overhead cables. — A stone archway frames part of the cableway station and its cables.

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