Switzerland-1961: Classic Shot Of A Wide Open Green Field In Daylight

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationSwitzerland
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Switzerland

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Classic Shot Of A Wide Open Green Field In Daylight — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage footage captures a wide, sun-drenched green field in Switzerland under a bright daylight sky. A flock of sheep grazes peacefully across the rolling hillside, their white wool contrasting with the lush grass. The camera pans slowly across the landscape, revealing a distant monument and faint structures on the horizon. The image shows classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and natural imperfections, evoking a nostalgic, pastoral memory of rural life. This authentic home movie clip offers a serene glimpse into mid-century countryside 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: 125292771

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1961 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Switzerland Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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 Swiss home-movie countryside footage suited for pastoral inserts, rural travel context, landscape transitions, or archival memory sequences.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century rural Switzerland through open pastureland, distant grazing sheep, a sparse horizon, and soft 8mm color typical of family travel films.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the hillside from a quiet visitor perspective, slowly taking in sheep, open grassland, and the distant ridge without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rolling green fields, small white sheep, low hills, a distant upright monument-like form, tree lines, pale sky, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm grain, muted color, gate edges, dust marks, slight softness, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing shot, gentle cutaway, travel transition, or reflective landscape beat within a Swiss or 1960s sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for leisure travel or countryside documentation, showing a quiet open landscape rather than a recorded public event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any location or property concerns for their project.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1961 Switzerland 8mm sheep field, Swiss countryside home movie, rolling pasture vintage footage, and 1960s rural landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Switzerland 1961 footage, then broader 1960s European countryside or grazing animal scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Switzerland home-movie frame showing sheep scattered across a rolling green hillside under bright daylight. — Small sheep graze across a broad green hillside with visible 8mm frame edges.

1961 Swiss countryside frame with grazing sheep on a sloping field and a distant monument-like shape along the ridge. — A distant upright form appears on the horizon above sheep grazing on the open slope.

1961 Switzerland home-movie frame looking across a soft green hillside with a few sheep near the lower slope. — A sparse group of sheep appears near the lower hillside as the camera continues across the pasture.

1961 Swiss rural landscape frame with an open sloping field, dark tree line, and a small haystack-like shape in the pasture. — The field opens toward a darker tree line, with a small haystack-like form in the middle distance.

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