Lucerne Switzerland-1962: A Cable Car Rides Metal Wires While Traversing A Forested Mountain

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

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A Cable Car Rides Metal Wires While Traversing A... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a cable car journey through a dense Swiss forest. The footage shows a covered gondola traversing metal wires above a lush, tree-covered mountainside, with glimpses of a small wooden cabin nestled among the conifers. The scene is bathed in the characteristic purple and green hues of aged Super 8 film, with visible grain and soft focus. Passengers are faintly visible inside the cabin as it moves steadily through the scenic alpine landscape, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century mountain transportation in Lucerne, Switzerland.

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: 124766401

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.

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 (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 archival requests needing Swiss alpine transport, mountain travel, or home-movie cable car footage for documentary inserts.
Period detail: The footage may show early-1960s leisure travel through Lucerne-area forest, with a small enclosed gondola and simple mountain structures visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective from or near a moving cable car, emphasizing the experience of travel rather than a staged view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include forested slopes, cable wires, a small cabin, an enclosed gondola, passengers inside, meadow grass, and distant hills.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, purple-green color shift, visible grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, alpine transition, transportation cutaway, or brief memory beat within a mid-century Europe sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents recreational mountain access and sightseeing infrastructure in a Swiss forest setting without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: People are faintly visible inside the gondola, so likeness review may be needed separate from copyright and any location or property assessment.
Research search match: Searches such as 1960s Switzerland cable car, Lucerne mountain gondola, vintage 8mm alpine transport, and home movie forest cableway fit this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Lucerne travel footage, then broader alpine transportation or Swiss tourism scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Lucerne-area home-movie view of a forested Swiss hillside, meadow, and small mountain building. — A distant hillside view shows conifers, open grass, and a small structure among the trees.

An enclosed gondola moves past dense trees in the 1962 Lucerne cable car footage, with passengers faintly visible. — The gondola passes near the camera, partly blurred by motion and framed by forest branches.

A pale cable car cabin is partly obscured by trees during a 1962 Swiss mountain cableway ride near Lucerne. — Tree branches partially block the view of the cable car as it continues through the forest.

Cable wires cross a wooded Swiss mountainside in the Lucerne 1962 home-movie footage, with distant hills in soft focus. — The final view follows cable wires across a tree-covered mountain landscape.

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