New York USA-1962: Red Cable Car Descending Mountain Side

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

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Red Cable Car Descending Mountain Side — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1962 showing a red and white cable car descending a mountain side in New York. The clip captures the cable car passing a tall metal support tower against a backdrop of snow-dusted trees and rugged terrain. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, conveying a nostalgic, authentic mid-century travel experience. The camera remains relatively stable, focusing on the cable car's movement through the scenic landscape.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122657761

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: Supports 1960s editorial or documentary needs for New York mountain transportation, winter travel scenery, or mid-century visitor footage of an aerial cable car.
Period detail: The red-and-white cable car, steel support towers, and soft 8mm color may show early 1960s leisure travel infrastructure in a snowy New York mountain setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot viewpoint, holding on the descending cable car from across the line rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red cable car, overhead cables, tall steel towers, wooded slopes, snow patches, roads or paths, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries authentic 8mm texture with visible grain, slight softness, uneven exposure, and muted color that preserve the feel of a physical home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short travel insert, mountain transit cutaway, winter transition, or memory beat within a 1960s New York sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects mid-century recreational travel imagery, with an aerial tram or cable car moving through rugged, snow-dusted terrain.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright, location, and possible infrastructure or property identification issues.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1962 New York cable car footage, 8mm mountain tram home movie, vintage aerial cable car, and 1960s winter travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with New York 1962 travel footage, then with vintage mountain transportation or winter tourism scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 New York 8mm frame showing a red cable car near steel cable supports above snow-dusted trees and mountain roads. — A red cable car approaches the steel support structure over a snowy wooded slope.

Red-and-white cable car descends past a tall metal support tower in a snowy New York mountain landscape. — The cable car moves past the support tower with snow and wooded slopes behind it.

1962 home-movie frame of a red cable car centered beneath a steel tower against snow-dusted New York woods. — The red cable car hangs below the tower as it continues down the line.

Red cable car appears smaller as it descends along the cable line beyond the steel tower in New York mountain terrain. — The cable car recedes down the cable line beyond the tower and snowy hillside.

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