Lucerne Switzerland-1962: Two Men in Cable Car Watching Mountain Scenery

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

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Two Men in Cable Car Watching Mountain Scenery — Clip Details

Two men ride a cable car through the Swiss Alps in 1962, captured on vintage 8mm film. One man, wearing glasses and a dark jacket, looks out the window at the rolling green hills and scattered village below. The other man, in a light-colored shirt, sits beside him, both gazing at the scenic mountain landscape. The footage shows the interior of the cable car with visible window frames and a slightly grainy, color-graded look characteristic of home movies from the era. The view shifts as the car moves, offering a nostalgic perspective of a classic Swiss journey.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
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: 124766267

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

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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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s European travel, Swiss Alps tourism, cable car transit, and home-movie inserts showing passengers watching mountain scenery.
Period detail: The men’s eyeglasses, collared shirts, dark jacket, cable car cabin, and 8mm color stock support an early-1960s travel-home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged passenger perspective, with men quietly looking out from a moving cable car rather than posing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two adult men, eyeglasses, collared shirts, cable car windows, dark cabin framing, hillside scenery, village rooftops, and overhead cables.
Film character: The clip has a home-movie 8mm texture with soft focus, visible grain, muted color, uneven exposure, and handheld framing inside the cabin.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a travel cutaway, memory beat, transition into alpine scenery, or human-scale insert within a Swiss tourism sequence.
Historical context: The footage shows mid-century leisure travel from inside a cable car, linking alpine landscape views with the experience of passengers in transit.
Research note: Faces are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed; no logos or obvious private property are visible, and copyright status is separate from depicted-person clearance.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 Lucerne Switzerland 8mm cable car, Swiss Alps home movie passengers, vintage alpine travel, and men watching mountain scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Lucerne or 1962 Switzerland footage, then broader cable car, mountain travel, and alpine tourism scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Inside a Lucerne-area cable car in 1962, two adult men face the windows as hills and a village appear outside. — Passengers ride in a cable car while the mountain landscape passes beyond the windows.

A man in glasses and a dark jacket sits by a cable car window during a 1962 Swiss mountain ride. — A passenger in glasses turns inside the cable car as alpine scenery appears beyond the glass.

A smiling man in glasses is framed by the cable car interior, with Swiss hillside scenery visible outside. — The camera catches a close passenger view inside the cable car cabin.

The cable car window shows a moving view over hills and village rooftops near Lucerne, with a passenger partly visible. — The view shifts toward the landscape outside as the cable car moves above the valley.

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