Izmir Turkey-1962: Aerial View of City and Highway

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

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Aerial View of City and Highway — Clip Details

Aerial view of Izmir, Turkey in 1962 captured on 8mm film, showing a dense cluster of low-rise buildings nestled between agricultural fields and a winding highway. The footage, shot from an elevated perspective, reveals a mix of residential structures and green spaces, with a prominent concrete road cutting through the landscape. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and visible scratches, conveying a nostalgic, archival quality. This vintage home movie offers a rare glimpse into mid-century Turkish urban development and rural surroundings.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127007162

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s archival footage for productions needing an elevated establishing view of Izmir's urban edge, roads, fields, and hillside development.
Period detail: The low-rise settlement pattern, open fields, and road layout may show mid-century urban growth around Izmir as recorded in 1962 home-movie footage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot overlook perspective, observing the city and hillside infrastructure from above rather than staging action or close detail.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include clustered pale buildings, green agricultural plots, a winding road, hillside trees, concrete slopes, dark frame edges, and distant streets.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, muted color, visible grain, light scratches, and exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as an establishing insert, transition, or brief geography cutaway for Turkish city, road, or urban-rural context.
Historical context: The view places dense low-rise housing beside cultivated land and hillside roads, suggesting a city edge where built and agricultural areas meet.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related uses should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 Izmir aerial view, 8mm Turkey city footage, vintage Turkish highway, and 1960s urban edge home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Izmir material, then Turkish road, cityscape, or urban development footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Izmir home-movie frame showing dense low-rise buildings beyond green fields, with trees and a hillside road in the foreground. — Elevated view of Izmir buildings, fields, and hillside road.

1962 Izmir frame with clustered pale buildings, cultivated green plots, hillside trees, and a curving concrete road below. — Clustered city blocks and green plots seen from above.

Soft 1962 Izmir frame showing a dense settlement beyond trees and road surfaces, with dark hillside shadows along the lower edge. — Soft aerial view over city blocks and hillside roadways.

1962 Izmir frame with town buildings in the distance, hillside trees and road lines below, and dark film-edge shadowing. — Town buildings and hillside road lines viewed from above.

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