Switzerland-1962: Big Houses On Top Of A Very High Green Hill In The Sunlight

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationSwitzerland
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 Switzerland

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Big Houses On Top Of A Very High Green Hill In The Sunlight — Clip Details

SWITZERLAND-1962: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a dramatic mountain landscape under bright sunlight. The clip opens on a wide shot of a large house and a smaller building perched atop a steep, grassy hill. The camera then moves to a close-up of a rugged rock face, highlighting its textured surface and natural crevices. The footage exhibits the characteristic purple color cast and grain of 8mm film from the early 1960s, evoking a strong sense of nostalgia and archival charm.

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: 124810512

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: 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 Switzerland requests needing home-movie mountain scenery, hillside buildings, and rocky alpine terrain for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus, and purple cast support an early-1960s home-movie feel, while the visible hillside buildings may show rural or alpine visitor architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the landscape from a tourist or family-travel viewpoint, moving from a distant hillside view into close attention on a rough rock face.
What appears in frame: Visible material includes a steep green hill, large pale house, smaller building, rugged rock wall, dark crevices, bright sky, and heavy frame-edge vignetting.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, purple color shift, soft exposure, and handheld framing that register as physical-film texture from an amateur travel reel.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief alpine establishing insert, a travel-memory transition, or a cutaway from buildings to geological detail.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for mid-century leisure travel in a Swiss mountain setting without identifying a specific village, landmark, or route.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, property depiction, and exact location identification should be reviewed before final use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1960s Switzerland 8mm mountain house, Swiss alpine home movie rock face, vintage hilltop buildings, and amateur travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Switzerland 1962 material, then broader alpine landscapes, hillside buildings, or rock-detail cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Switzerland home-movie frame showing a large house and smaller building on a high grassy slope with soft 8mm color. — A distant view of hillside buildings on a steep green mountain slope.

Close 8mm view of a rough Swiss mountain rock face, with dark openings and purple color cast from the film scan. — The camera turns to a textured rock wall with dark natural openings.

1962 Switzerland frame focused on a craggy mountain rock face, showing dark crevices and a bright sky edge. — A craggy rock surface fills the frame, with small dark openings in the stone.

Close mountain rock detail from a 1962 Switzerland home movie, framed tightly with dark crevices and pale sky. — The final frame holds on the steep rock face and its dark openings.

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