Lucerne Switzerland-1962: Sight From Cable Car Up Steep Grade Includes View Of

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

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Sight From Cable Car Up Steep Grade Includes View Of — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a scenic journey from a cable car in Lucerne, Switzerland. The clip opens with a view of dense evergreen trees against a hazy sky, then pans across rolling hills and a valley dotted with scattered houses. The perspective shifts to reveal the cable car's wooden structure and mechanical wheels, emphasizing the steep grade of the ascent. The footage concludes with a view of traditional Swiss houses nestled in the green landscape. This authentic 8mm home movie offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century travel and alpine scenery.

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: 124766298

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 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: 1960s Swiss travel footage for documentary or commercial edits needing a cable-car ascent, alpine valley views, and rural Lucerne-area scenery.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century Swiss hillside housing, overhead cable equipment, and rural landscape details consistent with the supplied 1962 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage carries a visitor-shot cable-car perspective, looking outward from the moving car rather than staging a formal scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wooded hills, hazy sky, cable-car wires, mechanical wheels, a steep structure, green pasture, footpaths, and chalet-like houses.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, and handheld framing that give the scene a clear home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, scenic transition, cable-car cutaway, or brief memory beat for Swiss tourism and mountain movement.
Historical context: The views place leisure travel within a rural alpine setting, with transport infrastructure crossing forested slopes and small houses below.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but houses and cable infrastructure appear on screen, so copyright, location, and property-context review may still be needed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 8mm Lucerne cable car, Swiss alpine valley home movie, vintage mountain railway view, and rural Switzerland travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Lucerne or 1962 Switzerland footage, then broader cable-car, alpine village, and mid-century travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Lucerne-area home-movie frame showing evergreen branches against a hazy hillside and distant rural landscape. — Evergreen trees frame a hazy view across rolling Swiss hills.

Lucerne-area hillside view from the 1962 8mm clip, with scattered trees, fields, and small distant buildings. — The cable-car view opens across fields, tree lines, and distant hillside buildings.

1962 8mm frame showing cable-car wheels, wires, and a steep support structure above wooded green terrain near Lucerne. — Cable wheels and wires emphasize the steep ascent above the trees.

Lucerne-area home-movie view of chalet-like houses, red roofs, a footpath, and green hillside pasture in 1962 footage. — Traditional hillside houses sit among pasture and paths below the cable-car route.

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