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Switzerland-1961: A Field With Short Grass And Hills And A Tower In The

  • Year1961
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationSwitzerland
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1961 Switzerland
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A Field With Short Grass And Hills And A Tower In The — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping view of rolling green hills under a pale sky. A prominent tower with a spire stands atop the ridge, with a clock face visible in some frames. The landscape is covered in short grass, and the footage shows subtle camera movement across the terrain. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight vignetting, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of mid-century Switzerland.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution
4K Digitally Restored
License
Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
125292754

Rights & Clearance

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

  • 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 record not linked for this clip
Date
1961 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location
Switzerland Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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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Topics & Keywords

  • background
  • tower
  • clock
  • green
  • grass
  • field
  • short
  • hills
  • backgrounds
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  • switzerland
  • 1961
  • 1961 Switzerland footage
  • vintage 8mm film
  • Super 8 home movie
  • rolling hills
  • clock tower
  • green fields
  • archival footage
  • retro film
  • old film
  • 1960s travel
  • Swiss landscape
  • film grain
  • nostalgic footage
  • vintage camera
  • analog film
  • historical footage
  • countryside
  • tower with clock
  • 8mm home movie
  • vintage 1960s

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
1961 Swiss 8mm landscape footage for documentary inserts, archive research, museum displays, or commercial edits needing a mid-century rural hillside and distant tower view.
Period detail
The 8mm color, soft exposure, distant ridge tower, and open grassland may show a visitor-recorded Swiss landscape from the early 1960s.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, with the camera scanning the hill and holding briefly on the distant tower rather than presenting a formal scenic study.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include rolling short-grass hills, a pale sky, a ridge-top tower with a spire, distant small human figures or visitors, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character
The footage carries visible 8mm grain, faded color, soft focus, mild vignetting, and handheld framing that add authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role
Editors can use this as a quiet establishing insert, landscape cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into Swiss countryside or tower-location material.
Historical context
The view suggests mid-century leisure or travel filming in Switzerland, showing open hillside scenery and visitors gathered near a ridge-top tower.
Research note
People appear only as distant small figures, but likeness review may still be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright clearance is separate from location or likeness concerns.
Research search match
Useful search matches include 1961 Switzerland 8mm hills, vintage Swiss tower home movie, rural ridge landscape, distant clock tower, and mid-century travel footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1961 Switzerland footage, then broader themes of European travel, rural hillsides, towers, and home-movie landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Swiss 8mm frame showing a soft, distant ridge-top tower above rolling short-grass hills.
A distant tower stands on the ridge beyond the rolling hillside.
Soft 8mm view of a Swiss hillside in 1961, with a ridge line and small distant figures or structures near the horizon.
The camera holds on the open slope and distant ridge activity.
1961 Swiss home-movie frame of a sloping grass hill, with tiny distant figures or structures near the ridge.
A low hillside fills the frame, with small distant forms at the ridge.
Distant ridge-top tower with a spire in 1961 Swiss 8mm footage, seen across rolling grassland with small visitors nearby.
The tower becomes clearer on the ridge, with small visitors silhouetted nearby.

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