Lucerne Switzerland-1962: View Of Tourist City Located In A Valley With Cable Car Aerials

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationLucerne, Switzerland
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 Lucerne Switzerland

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View Of Tourist City Located In A Valley With Cable Car... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a scenic aerial view of Lucerne, Switzerland, from a cable car. Passengers are visible inside the gondola as it glides over the city nestled in a lush valley. The footage reveals a mix of traditional houses and modern apartment buildings surrounded by green hills and trees, showcasing the town's blend of urban development and natural beauty. The film's characteristic grain and color palette evoke a nostalgic, mid-century European travel experience.

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: 124766245

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

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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 (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: Lucerne, Switzerland 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: Useful for 1960s European travel, Swiss tourism, or urban-valley establishing material where a cable-car viewpoint over Lucerne is needed.
Period detail: The apartment blocks, hillside houses, cable-car framing, and muted 8mm color may show early-1960s tourist infrastructure and residential growth around Lucerne.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from inside or near a moving gondola, valuing the real-time tourist gaze more than staged sightseeing action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include gondola window bars, overhead cable, hillside fields, clusters of houses, apartment blocks, trees, and a valley town below.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, slight blur, purple-green color shift, and handheld framing that preserve the physical texture of a scanned home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief aerial insert, travel transition, city approach shot, or memory beat within a mid-century Switzerland sequence.
Historical context: The view places Lucerne within a landscaped valley setting, with rural slopes and modern housing visible in the same tourist vantage point.
Research note: People may be present inside the gondola and brand or sign details are not clearly readable, so likeness and trademark review should remain separate from copyright assessment.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 8mm Lucerne cable car view, Swiss tourist home movie, aerial valley city footage, and mid-century Switzerland travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other Lucerne or 1962 Switzerland clips, then broader cable-car, alpine tourism, and European city-view material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Lucerne cable-car view with hillside fields, clustered houses, trees, and valley buildings framed by dark gondola structure. — Aerial tourist view over Lucerne-area houses and green slopes from a cable car.

1962 Lucerne valley view from a cable car, showing houses, fields, trees, and an overhead cable through the gondola frame. — Cable-car perspective across Lucerne's valley edge, hillside fields, and town buildings.

Elevated 1962 Lucerne view with apartment blocks, trees, hillside fields, and village buildings softened by 8mm film color. — Apartment blocks and hillside neighborhoods appear below the cable-car route.

1962 Lucerne cable-car still showing apartment buildings, rooftops, green fields, trees, and dark gondola framing. — Final aerial view over residential blocks, rooftops, and green valley slopes.

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