Lucerne Switzerland-1962: A View Of City And Mountain Through Cable Car Moving

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

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A View Of City And Mountain Through Cable Car Moving — Clip Details

Aerial views from a cable car in Lucerne, Switzerland, in 1962, captured on 8mm film. The footage shows a sweeping panorama of the city nestled among green hills and mountains, with buildings and trees visible below. The camera moves steadily, offering a nostalgic perspective from above, with the cable car's structure occasionally framing the scene. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, evoking mid-century travel memories.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124766360

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 useful for documentary, museum, education or commercial edits needing a cable-car view over Lucerne and surrounding green hills.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus and elevated cable-car framing support a 1962 tourist perspective rather than a staged city view.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a visitor filming through a moving cable car, accepting window bars and vibration as part of the travel experience.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a hazy city below, wooded slopes, grassy hillside, cable-car window framing, dark vertical supports and distant buildings.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, muted color shifts, soft exposure and slight motion blur that give the mountain overlook a mid-century home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief aerial insert, travel transition, location-establishing cutaway or reflective memory beat.
Historical context: The view places Lucerne within a tourist landscape of hills, trees and cable transport, without identifying specific landmarks from these frames.
Research note: No people, logos or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any location or transport-system permissions separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1962 Lucerne 8mm cable car view, Swiss mountain travel home movie, aerial city panorama from cable car or vintage Switzerland footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Lucerne material, then Swiss mountain transport or elevated city-view travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Lucerne, Switzerland, seen from a cable car with dark window supports crossing a soft aerial city view. — A hazy city panorama appears through the cable-car structure.

Aerial view over Lucerne from a moving cable car, with window framing and a dark edge partly covering the city below. — The cable-car frame interrupts the elevated view over the city.

1962 cable-car view in Lucerne showing a green hillside, trees and small structures below the moving cabin. — Trees and a grassy slope pass beneath the cable car.

Lucerne cable-car footage from 1962 showing a wooded slope and small buildings below, framed by the moving cabin. — The view shifts to wooded slopes and buildings beneath the line.

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