Switzerland-1962: Cluster of Rustic Homes Nestle on Mountain

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationSwitzerland
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 Switzerland

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Cluster of Rustic Homes Nestle on Mountain — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures an aerial view of a remote mountain landscape in Switzerland. The grainy, purple-tinted footage reveals a cluster of rustic homes nestled on a grassy mountaintop, with a winding path connecting them. The camera pans across the rugged terrain, offering a nostalgic glimpse of rural life in the Swiss Alps during the early 1960s. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including soft focus and natural film grain, evoking a sense of quiet isolation and timeless beauty.

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: 124810567

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 documentary or educational edits needing Swiss mountain home-movie views from an elevated rural landscape.
Period detail: The frames may show early-1960s Alpine rural buildings, grassy slopes, footpaths and soft handheld 8mm exposure rather than identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a traveler filming from a high viewpoint, lingering on terrain and distant houses without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include steep grassy hillsides, a small cluster of buildings, winding paths, bare trees, dark frame edges and distant hazy terrain.
Film character: Purple color shift, soft focus, heavy grain, exposure variation and contact-sheet framing give the scan clear 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, memory beat, rural travel transition or cutaway within a Swiss Alps sequence.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for mid-century leisure travel or rural mountain scenery, while the exact settlement and elevation are not identified.
Research note: No people, logos or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification and any property-related use should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Searches such as 1962 Switzerland 8mm mountain homes, vintage Swiss Alps home movie, and aerial rural Alpine view may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Switzerland footage, then broader mountain village or Alpine landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Swiss 8mm frame showing a blurred grassy mountainside and rugged terrain from a high, handheld viewpoint. — A hazy view looks across a steep mountain slope with dark 8mm frame borders.

1962 Swiss home-movie frame with rustic buildings, paths and trees on a remote mountain slope. — A cluster of buildings appears beside footpaths on a high grassy slope.

Purple-shifted 1962 Swiss 8mm frame looking over a rounded grassy rise in a mountain landscape. — The camera settles on a rounded grassy rise with hazy terrain beyond it.

1962 Switzerland home-movie frame showing a rounded mountaintop slope with faint paths and soft distant landscape. — A rounded slope dominates the foreground as faint paths and distant terrain fade into haze.

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