Switzerland-1961: Palace Hotel And Hillside Town By The Lake

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationSwitzerland
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Switzerland

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Palace Hotel And Hillside Town By The Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a scenic lakeside view in Switzerland. The clip features a grand building with a prominent 'PALACE' sign, nestled along the water's edge with a hillside town rising behind it. Lush green trees and a clear sky frame the historic architecture, with gentle water ripples in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color fading, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical projects.

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: 125292803

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: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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: 1961 Swiss lakeside home-movie footage suited for documentary or educational requests needing a quiet establishing view of hotels, hillside architecture, and lakefront scenery.
Period detail: The visible hotel facades, hillside settlement, lakefront promenade, and rooftop signs may show mid-20th-century Swiss resort architecture from a visitor's viewpoint.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a traveler filming across the water toward prominent hotels and the town climbing the hill behind them.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include lake water, grand hotel buildings, rooftop signs, hillside homes, wooded slopes, pale sky, and dark 8mm frame edges.
Film character: Soft 8mm color, mild fading, visible grain, handheld framing, and contact-frame borders give the footage a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel transition, lakeside cutaway, or memory beat within a Swiss tourism or postwar Europe sequence.
Historical context: The view documents a visitor-facing lakeside resort setting with large hotels and hillside residences, without showing identifiable people or street-level activity.
Research note: Rooftop hotel signage is visible, so brand and property-identification review may be needed; copyright, trademark, and property concerns should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1961 8mm Switzerland lake hotel, Swiss hillside town home movie, Palace hotel sign by lake, and vintage European resort footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1961 Switzerland lakeside views, then broader vintage European hotel, lake, and mountain-town footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Swiss lakeside view showing a large hotel marked PALACE, water in the foreground, and a wooded hillside town behind. — A grand lakeside hotel with a PALACE sign is seen across the water below a hillside town.

Swiss lakefront in 1961 with a prominent PALACE hotel, hillside residences, trees, and soft faded 8mm color. — The camera frames the hotel and surrounding hillside from across the lake.

1961 Swiss home-movie frame with lakeside hotel architecture, hillside homes, trees, and the lake foreground. — Hotels and hillside buildings fill the frame above the lakefront trees.

1961 Swiss lakeside view showing a hotel with a MONTANA sign, wooded slopes, hillside buildings, and soft 8mm grain. — A hotel marked MONTANA appears among trees and hillside buildings near the lake.

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