St. Moritz Switzerland-1963: Crowded Café Terrace as a VW Beetle and a Dark Saloon Drive Past

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Year1963
Decade1960s
LocationSt. Moritz, Graubunden, Switzerland
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1963 · St. Moritz, Graubunden, Switzerland
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1963 · Graubunden & St. Moritz · Reel 83820b3c contains 7 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

Alpine tourism
café culture
resort town life
1960s motoring
summer holiday
European street scene
travel home movie

Shot type: wide
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: outdoor · Resort town street with a hotel facade and a crowded outdoor café
Time and weather: day · summer · sunny
Lighting: Bright daylight with hard sun on the pavement and darker building facades
People: 40 · A crowd of seated café guests on the terrace, with adults and small children standing or crouching on the pavement, including a woman in a red coat; all are seen at a distance.
Vehicles: Volkswagen Beetle · dark early-1960s saloon car · parked dark car
Landmarks: Hotel Hauser
Objects: HAUSER sign · TEA ROOM sign · Swiss flag · heraldic flag · flower boxes · café tables · no-parking sign · street lamp · traffic signal post
Readable signs: HAUSER · TEA ROOM
Colors: violet · grey · red · white · dark blue
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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The HAUSER sign and Swiss flag hang over a crowded café terrace, with pedestrians and children on the pavement.
The camera starts to pan left as a pale VW Beetle enters from the left.
A dark saloon car pulls into the foreground as the Beetle crosses the street.
The saloon drives across the frame and a pink-red building appears on the left.

St. Moritz Switzerland-1963: Crowded Café Terrace as a... — Clip Details

St. Moritz, Switzerland, circa 1963 home movie footage. The shot opens on the HAUSER sign and a Swiss flag above a packed café terrace, where guests sit behind flower boxes while passers-by, a woman in a red coat and small children stand on the pavement below. The handheld camera then pans left along the street as a pale VW Beetle and a dark early-1960s saloon drive through the frame, revealing a pink-red building. It is shot on 8mm colour film with a strong violet cast and heavy grain.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 800001753

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Minors are visible. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip, and a sensitive-use review is recommended.

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1963 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: St. Moritz, Graubunden, 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: This shot answers requests for early-1960s Swiss resort street life, giving a documentary or travel film a readable, place-named view of St. Moritz in summer.
Period detail: A VW Beetle, an early-1960s dark saloon, the hats and coats of the café crowd, and the hotel's period lettering all point to the early 1960s.
Home-movie behavior: A tourist films from across the street, and the camera drifts from the hotel to the passing cars, recording the crowd as it really was, unposed.
What appears in frame: The frame shows the HAUSER hotel sign, a Swiss flag and a second heraldic flag, a crowded café behind flower boxes, a woman in red with small children on the pavement, a pale VW Beetle, a dark saloon and a pink-red building.
Film character: The 8mm colour has a strong violet cast, heavy grain and soft focus, and the handheld pan blurs the cars, giving the shot an authentic faded home-movie look.
Edit role: It works as a short establishing shot or cutaway for St. Moritz, or as a memory beat in a travel sequence.
Historical context: The shot shows a busy summer resort centre where hotel café guests, families on foot and private cars share one narrow street.
Research note: The film's copyright is separate from the likeness of people in it: café guests, adults and children appear at a distance and are unidentified, and the hotel name and building are private property, so producers should assess likeness, trademark and property use for their own purpose.
Research search match: Researchers might search for St. Moritz 1960s home movie, Hotel Hauser vintage footage, Swiss café terrace 8mm film, or VW Beetle in a Swiss resort town.
Archive pairing path: Pair it first with the cattle drive on an Alpine road and the rainy street corner from the same reel, then with other St. Moritz hotel views of about 1963, then with the reel's Zurich shopping street and Bally shop for a Swiss holiday sequence.

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Hotel Hauser in St. Moritz, circa 1963: HAUSER sign, Swiss flag and a packed café terrace with passers-by below — The HAUSER sign and a Swiss flag above a crowded café terrace in St. Moritz, circa 1963, on 8mm home movie film.
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Summer crowd at the Hotel Hauser café in St. Moritz, circa 1963, with a child crouched on the pavement in front — Café guests and pedestrians outside Hotel Hauser, St. Moritz, circa 1963, as the edge of a car appears at the left.
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VW Beetle and an early-1960s dark saloon passing the hotel café in central St. Moritz, circa 1963 — A VW Beetle and a dark saloon drive past the café crowd in St. Moritz, circa 1963.
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Dark early-1960s saloon crossing a St. Moritz street beside a pink-red building, circa 1963, on violet-toned 8mm film — A dark saloon crosses the street as the pan reveals a pink-red building in St. Moritz, circa 1963.
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