Izmir Turkey-1962: Old Abandoned Houses In A Deserted Village

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationIzmir, Turkey
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 Izmir Turkey

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Old Abandoned Houses In A Deserted Village — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a desolate landscape in Izmir, Turkey, featuring weathered stone buildings with arched doorways and windows. The structures stand abandoned in a grassy field under a cloudy sky, surrounded by trees and overgrown vegetation. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural camera movement, conveying a quiet, melancholic atmosphere of forgotten rural life. This archival clip offers authentic historical footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, or period pieces.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127006321

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: 1962 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: Izmir, Turkey 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 8mm home-movie footage of abandoned rural buildings near Izmir for documentary cutaways, historical landscape inserts, and archival atmosphere.
Period detail: The scene may show mid-20th-century rural structures with low stone walls, arched openings, open fields, and sparse tree lines under a cloudy sky.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot viewpoint, observing the deserted buildings from a distance without staging, narration, or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include grassy ground, weathered stone buildings, arched doorways, rectangular openings, low earth banks, trees, and a cloudy sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight frame weave, and handheld movement that place the material clearly in a home-movie archive context.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, rural transition, abandoned-place cutaway, or reflective memory beat in a Turkey or 1960s sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents a deserted-looking rural settlement landscape, but the frames alone do not identify the buildings, ownership, or reason for abandonment.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1962 Izmir 8mm abandoned village, Turkey rural ruins home movie, deserted stone houses archival footage, and 1960s village landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1962 Izmir footage, and then with rural Turkey, abandoned buildings, or village landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Izmir home-movie frame showing weathered rural buildings with arched openings across a grassy, deserted field. — Weathered structures with arched openings stand beyond grassy ground beneath a cloudy sky.

1962 Izmir frame with low abandoned structures, pale arched openings, trees, and uneven grassy terrain. — Low rural buildings sit beyond rough green ground, with trees and clouds in the background.

1962 Izmir home-movie view of distant stone structures, arched openings, a grassy bank, and overcast sky. — The camera looks across a grassy bank toward deserted structures and a sparse tree line.

1962 Izmir frame showing a plain foreground building, grassy terrain, and distant abandoned rural structures. — A plain building enters the foreground while abandoned structures remain visible across the field.

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