Venice Italy-1962: View Of The Shore From The Water

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationVenice, Italy
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 Venice Italy

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View Of The Shore From The Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of Venice's skyline from the water. The clip shows calm, rippling water with a gondola gliding across the frame, offering a classic perspective of the historic city. A prominent church with a domed roof stands out against the distant shoreline, surrounded by traditional Venetian buildings. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and subtle scratches, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the early 1960s. The scene evokes a peaceful, nostalgic atmosphere, perfect for historical documentaries, travel narratives, or retro-themed content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 124811133

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: 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 1712 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: vatican visit to pope,lg fountain
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: rome,italy
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: Venice, Italy 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: 1960s Venice home-movie waterfront view for documentary inserts, travel-history sequences, or archival city-atmosphere transitions.
Period detail: The 1962 home-movie view may show mid-century Venice from the lagoon, with a domed church, low shoreline buildings, and a traditional gondola visible at distance.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from the water, observing the skyline and passing gondola without staged action or direct engagement.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open lagoon water, a distant Venetian shoreline, a domed church, low historic buildings, a gondola, a standing boatman, pale sky, and film gate borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, exposure variation, and small scratches consistent with early-1960s amateur film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a Venice establishing cutaway, a quiet transition over water, or a memory beat between travel or city-history scenes.
Historical context: The view places Venice's waterfront architecture and gondola traffic within an everyday tourist vantage point, without confirming a specific landmark beyond the supplied location.
Research note: People appear only as distant figures, but likeness review may still be needed; copyright, location, and any property or religious-site permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 8mm Venice waterfront, vintage home movie gondola on lagoon, Venice skyline from water, and 1960s Italy travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Venice water views, then other 1962 Venice clips, then broader 1960s Italy travel, gondola, and European waterfront material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm Venice view from the water, showing lagoon foreground, a distant shoreline, and a domed church softened by film grain. — Venice shoreline and domed church seen across the lagoon.

1962 Venice waterfront seen from the lagoon, with a distant domed church and a gondola partly visible near the right side of the frame. — A gondola passes along the distant Venice waterfront.

1962 home-movie frame of a gondola crossing the Venice lagoon, with the city shoreline and domed church in the background. — Gondola crossing in front of the Venice skyline.

1962 8mm Venice lagoon view with a gondola in mid-frame and a distant shoreline of buildings and a domed church. — Gondola gliding across a distant Venice waterfront view.

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