Chimay Belgium-1962: Belgian Village with Church and Festival Sign

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationChimay, Belgium
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Belgian Village with Church and Festival Sign — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a quiet Belgian village nestled in a green valley on a cold day. The footage shows traditional stone buildings, a prominent church steeple, and a wooden fence lining a path. A later frame reveals a sign for 'Chimay Musicales' with dates from June 30 to July 15, with people gathered on a balcony. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, evoking nostalgia for mid-century European life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 124810450

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

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: Chimay, Belgium 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 village life requests needing brief Swiss valley, church, and festival signage cutaways from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century color 8mm travel footage with stone buildings, a church steeple, simple fencing, and a hand-painted musical festival sign.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like a visitor filming from a distance, moving from a village panorama to people standing near a public sign.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a green valley, clustered rooftops, church steeple, wooden fence, stone wall, festival sign, balcony railing, and several adults.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm focus, visible grain, slight color shift, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing insert, travel transition, festival reference cutaway, or memory beat for mid-century European village life.
Historical context: The footage visually connects a quiet village setting with public cultural activity, without confirming the exact event beyond the visible musical sign.
Research note: People and a readable festival sign are visible, so likeness, signage, and location identification should be reviewed separately from film copyright status.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1962 8mm Switzerland village, European church steeple, valley town home movie, and musical festival sign footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Switzerland 1962 village footage, then with broader European festival or church-town cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm view of a Swiss village in a green valley, with clustered buildings, a church steeple, and a wooden fence in front. — Village rooftops and church steeple seen across a green valley.

Distant Swiss village view on 8mm film, showing rooftops, a church steeple, grassy foreground, and a fence-lined path. — A distant village and church steeple framed from across the valley.

8mm frame showing a readable musical festival sign with June and July dates, stone wall, balcony railing, and adults nearby. — Adults stand near a sign advertising musical performances dated June 30 to July 15.

Close 8mm view of the musical festival sign, with adults partly visible behind it and stone architecture around the balcony. — The camera holds on the festival sign and nearby adults on a stone balcony.

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