Lucerne Switzerland-1962: View Of Silver Cable Car And A White House With Green Shutters

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View Of Silver Cable Car And A White House With Green... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a scenic aerial view of Lucerne, Switzerland. The clip opens on a white house with green shutters and a manicured garden, then pans across the town's rooftops. A silver cable car, marked with the number 94, glides through the frame, offering a passenger's-eye view of the alpine landscape. The footage features classic 1960s color grading, soft focus, and film grain, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic Super 8 home movie is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling about mid-century Switzerland.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124766236

Rights & Clearance

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 1713 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: florence,venice,italy,lucerne,switzerland
Date: 1962 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Lucerne, Switzerland Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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: Supports requests for 1960s Swiss home-movie travel footage, especially aerial town views, residential scenery, and cable car transit cutaways for documentary or editorial use.
Period detail: The tiled roofs, shuttered houses, compact cable car, and soft 8mm color may show mid-century alpine tourism and residential surroundings in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, looking from or near a moving cable car across houses and hillside rather than staging people or events for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white shuttered house, garden paths, hillside rooftops, overhead cables, a silver cable car, passengers, trees, and distant fields.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, handheld framing, and brief motion blur as the cable car passes.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel insert, location transition, transport cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about Switzerland or alpine tourism.
Historical context: The views place everyday housing and cable transport within a scenic Swiss town setting, offering social context for leisure travel and elevated urban observation in the 1960s.
Research note: People appear only inside or near the passing cable car, so likeness and property review may still be needed; copyright clearance is separate from visible-person or location permissions.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 Lucerne 8mm home movie, Swiss cable car town view, alpine rooftops travel footage, and vintage Switzerland aerial residential scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1962 Lucerne or Switzerland clips, then broader 1960s European travel, cable car, and alpine town material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Lucerne home-movie frame showing a white house with shutters, tiled roof, garden paths, lawn, and nearby residential buildings. — White shuttered house and garden seen from an elevated moving viewpoint.

Elevated 1962 Lucerne view across residential rooftops, hillside fields, trees, overhead cable lines, and distant buildings. — Rooftops and hillside landscape viewed from above the town.

Lucerne rooftops and hillside seen from an elevated 1962 home movie, with a silver cable car partly visible at lower right. — Town rooftops with a cable car beginning to pass through the foreground.

A silver cable car with visible passengers moves past the camera in 1962 Lucerne, with hillside rooftops and cables behind it. — Silver cable car passes close to the camera with passengers visible inside.

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