Izmir Turkey-1962: Aerial View Of Town Hit By Earthquake

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

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Aerial View Of Town Hit By Earthquake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this archival footage captures an aerial view of a town in Izmir, Turkey, following a devastating earthquake. The clip shows densely packed white buildings, a railway line, and surrounding agricultural fields from a high vantage point, with visible film grain and scratches adding to its vintage authenticity. The final frames reveal a hazy, expansive landscape, suggesting widespread damage and the aftermath of the disaster. This raw, unfiltered home movie offers a poignant glimpse into mid-century disaster recovery and daily life in a historic Turkish city.

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: 127007236

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: Useful for 1960s documentary or educational edits needing brief aerial aftermath views from Izmir, Turkey, with an additional waterfront travel-home-movie angle.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century urban edges, rail infrastructure, agricultural plots, and a harbor scene consistent with the supplied 1962 Izmir metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot, observational quality, moving between distant aerial views and a brief waterfront view without staged action or visible participants.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white low-rise buildings, a railway line, green fields, hazy open land, a road, a moored vessel, lamp posts, and waterfront structures.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, muted color, visible grain, scratches, gate edges, and uneven exposure that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short disaster-aftermath insert, geographic transition, archival cutaway, or memory beat within a 1960s Turkey sequence.
Historical context: The views place built settlement, transport lines, farmland, and harbor activity together, suggesting urban and regional context without proving specific damage in every frame.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any location or property concerns for their use.
Research search match: Researchers may find it through searches for 1962 Izmir earthquake footage, 8mm Turkey aerial town views, mid-century Turkish harbor, or home-movie disaster aftermath.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel shots, then other 1962 Izmir material, then broader Turkey, earthquake aftermath, aerial town, or harbor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Izmir, Turkey 8mm frame showing an aerial view of dense low-rise buildings beside a road, rail line, and fields. — Aerial view over a town edge with rail line, road, buildings, and surrounding fields.

1962 Izmir, Turkey 8mm frame with a hazy aerial view over open terrain, fields, and distant built areas. — Hazy aerial landscape with fields and distant settlement visible through soft focus.

1962 Izmir, Turkey 8mm frame showing a broad hazy aerial landscape with fields, roads, and distant settlement. — Wide aerial view over fields, roads, and distant built-up areas in a hazy landscape.

1962 Izmir, Turkey 8mm frame showing a waterfront with a moored vessel, street lamps, and harbor buildings. — Moored vessel along a waterfront with lamp posts and buildings in the background.

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