New York-1962: Red Cable Car and Industrial Machine

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 New York

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Red Cable Car and Industrial Machine — Clip Details

NEW YORK-1962: A red cable car cabin glides through a wooded area, its windows revealing passengers against a backdrop of bare trees and evergreens. The scene transitions to a dimly lit industrial interior, where a green machine component moves under an arched structure. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie captures the contrast between leisurely transport and factory operations in the early 1960s, with authentic film grain and color saturation typical of Super 8 footage.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127643340

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1182 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: zoo
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1962 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: New York, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: Useful for 1960s New York archival edits needing brief home-movie views of cable transport and industrial machinery in motion.
Period detail: The red enclosed cable-car cabin, bare trees, muted colors, and mechanical interior support an early-1960s industrial or transport setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot feel, observing the moving cabin and machinery from close viewpoints rather than staged industrial documentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red cable-car cabin, passenger windows, leafless woodland, rails or support structure, green machinery, an arched interior, stairs, and shadowed equipment.
Film character: The 8mm footage shows visible grain, saturated reds and greens, soft focus, dark exposure shifts, and slight handheld instability typical of home-movie filming.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or contrast beat between leisure transport and mechanical industrial operation.
Historical context: The clip visually connects public or visitor transport with nearby mechanical infrastructure, without identifying a specific facility from the frames alone.
Research note: People appear inside the cabin, so likeness review may be needed; no visible logos are apparent, and copyright clearance remains separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Searches for 1962 New York 8mm cable car footage, vintage red cable-car cabin, industrial machine components, or home-movie machinery in motion may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 New York footage, then vintage transport, cable-car, factory, or machinery scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 New York 8mm frame showing a red cable-car cabin with passengers visible through windows against a wooded background. — A red cable-car cabin moves through a wooded area with figures visible inside.

1962 New York frame with a red cable-car cabin seen close up, windows darkened by shadow and trees behind it. — The red cabin passes close to the camera, with woodland and a small structural element nearby.

1962 New York 8mm view of a green industrial machine component moving through a shadowed interior structure. — A green mechanical component sits below a dark arched structure in a dim industrial interior.

1962 New York frame showing green machine equipment under a dark arch, with stairs and a block wall at the right. — Green machinery appears under shadow, framed by stairs, railing, and a wall inside the industrial area.

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