Switzerland-1962: Cable Car Descending Mountain Slope

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationSwitzerland
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 Switzerland

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Cable Car Descending Mountain Slope — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage footage captures a cable car descending a steep mountain slope in Switzerland. The view, likely from another cable car, shows the white cabin moving steadily along its cable against a backdrop of dense woodlands. The image is characterized by a strong purple color cast and heavy film grain, typical of home movie footage from the era. The camera remains relatively stable, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century mountain transportation 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: 124810540

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s Swiss travel, alpine transport, or home-movie sequences needing a short cable car descent through wooded mountain scenery.
Period detail: The small suspended cable car and soft 8mm color may show mid-century mountain tourism infrastructure, with no visible signage or identifiable landmark in frame.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint appears to come from another moving cable car, giving the scene the unstaged feel of a traveler filming the ride rather than a composed transport study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white cable car cabin, overhead cable, steep wooded slope, faint hillside contours, purple-blue sky or haze, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: Heavy grain, soft focus, purple color shift, and slight home-movie instability give the footage a physical 8mm texture suited to archival travel memory.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for Swiss mountain travel, cableways, tourism, or alpine movement.
Historical context: The clip visually situates mountain transport within wooded Swiss terrain, suggesting leisure or sightseeing access without confirming the route or resort.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are evident, but copyright, archive ownership, and any location or operator identification should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1962 Switzerland 8mm cable car footage, vintage alpine transport, home movie mountain railway, or wooded slope gondola view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1962 Switzerland travel footage, then broader vintage cable car, mountain tourism, or alpine landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Switzerland 8mm frame showing a small white cable car moving down over wooded alpine terrain with a purple film cast. — A cable car cabin descends across a wooded mountain slope.

A Swiss cable car appears suspended on a diagonal cable against soft wooded mountain scenery in this 1962 8mm home-movie frame. — The suspended cabin continues along the cable over hazy woodland.

The descending cable car sits lower in the frame, with soft-focus woods and heavy grain characteristic of 1962 8mm travel footage. — The cabin moves lower against the wooded slope.

Final frame of the 1962 Swiss cable car descent, with the cabin near the lower edge and wooded alpine terrain filling the background. — The cable car nears the lower edge of the frame during its descent.

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