Switzerland-1964: Woman in a Purple Coat Climbs into a Grey Volkswagen Beetle

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationSwitzerland
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 · Switzerland
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1964 · Innsbruck & Salzburg · Reel a711b0e3 contains 19 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

travel
departure
1960s motoring
European holiday
mid-century fashion
small cars
home movie

Shot type: wide
Camera: static · eye level
Setting: outdoor · Paved driveway in front of a flat-roofed modern building, with lawn, shrubs, low buildings and wooded hills behind
Time and weather: daytime · summer · fair, light cloud
Lighting: Soft natural daylight with mild shadows
People: 3 · A man in a grey suit with dark hair who wears sunglasses late in the shot; a woman in a purple coat over a light dress carrying a white handbag; a woman in a light short-sleeved top standing beyond the bonnet
Vehicles: grey Volkswagen Beetle
Objects: white handbag · open car door · flat-roofed building · lawn · shrubs · small handed object
Colors: grey · purple · green · white
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A man in a grey suit stands at the open door as a woman in a purple coat approaches with a white handbag.
The man turns away from the door as the woman reaches it.
The woman in purple bends into the car while the man walks round the bonnet.
A woman beside the bonnet hands the man a small object as the other woman settles inside.

Woman in a Purple Coat Climbs into a Grey Volkswagen Beetle — Clip Details

Probably Switzerland, circa 1964, home movie footage of a grey Volkswagen Beetle parked on a driveway before a flat-roofed modern building, with a lawn and wooded hills behind. A man in a grey suit stands at the open door, then walks round the front of the car while a woman in a purple coat carrying a white handbag ducks inside. A third woman beside the bonnet hands him a small object. It is filmed in one steady, static wide shot on 8mm colour film.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 4s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001652

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People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1964 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: It suits a request for 1960s European travel or everyday Volkswagen Beetle use, giving a short departure moment for a documentary, exhibit or nostalgic commercial.
Period detail: The rounded Beetle, the man's grey suit, the purple coat with a white handbag and the low modern building may show the look of the early to mid-1960s.
Home-movie behavior: Three travellers fuss around the car before setting off: one climbs in, one walks round, one passes something across the bonnet, an ordinary unposed bit of holiday logistics.
What appears in frame: The shot holds a grey Volkswagen Beetle with its door open, a man in a grey suit, a woman in a purple coat climbing in, a woman by the bonnet, a flat-roofed building and wooded hills under a pale sky.
Film character: The 8mm colour has visible grain, a cool violet cast in the sky and whites and saturated purple and green, and the static framing is unusually steady for amateur film.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a departure insert or memory beat, cutting between town scenes and road or landscape footage in a travel sequence.
Historical context: It shows privately owned small cars carrying tourists through mid-1960s Europe, with travellers in formal day clothes for a car trip.
Research note: The faces of the man and the woman by the bonnet are recognisable and unnamed, so likeness releases may be needed. The building and car are private property, and copyright in the film is separate from these personal and property rights.
Research search match: Fits searches such as 1960s VW Beetle home movie, 8mm European holiday footage, woman getting into car vintage film, and circa 1964 Switzerland travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's crowded lakeside garden café and old-town riverfront houses, then the busy KAUFHAUS shopping street and Maria-Theresien-Strasse walk, then other 1960s car-travel clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1964, probably Switzerland: man in a grey suit at the open door of a grey Volkswagen Beetle before a flat-roofed building — A man waits at the open door of a grey Beetle as a woman in a purple coat walks up, probably Switzerland, circa 1964.
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8mm home movie, circa 1964, likely Switzerland: woman in a purple coat reaches the door of a grey VW Beetle — The woman in purple reaches the car door as the man in grey turns away from it.
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Circa 1964 colour film, probably Switzerland: woman in purple climbs into a grey Beetle as a man walks round its bonnet — The woman in purple bends into the car while the man walks round the front toward the woman by the bonnet.
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Probably Switzerland, circa 1964: a woman hands a man a small object over a grey VW Beetle as another woman climbs in — Across the bonnet, a woman hands the man a small object while the woman in purple settles into the Beetle.
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