Saint Thomas-1964: Motorboat on Calm Waters Near Lush Green Hills

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Year1964
Decade1960s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Motorboat on Calm Waters Near Lush Green Hills — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a serene coastal view from Saint Thomas. A small white motorboat floats on calm blue waters, with a lush green hillside dotted with white buildings rising in the background. The footage, framed by dark borders and showing natural film grain and slight color fading, offers a nostalgic glimpse of island life. The camera remains steady, focusing on the tranquil seascape and the distant shoreline, evoking a sense of peaceful travel and tropical relaxation.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123999997

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: 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: Not recorded Unidentified (Insufficient evidence for a responsible conclusion.)
Location evidence: No location is recorded for this clip.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm coastal travel footage for documentary inserts needing a calm motorboat, island shoreline, and hillside settlement without visible people.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-1960s visitor view, with small leisure boat design, color 8mm stock, and hillside coastal buildings as visible era cues.
Home-movie behavior: The steady shore-facing view has the feel of a traveler pausing to film a quiet boat and distant hillside rather than staged activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, a small white motorboat, green hills, scattered light buildings, distant shoreline, clouds, and dark film gate borders.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, vertical marks, and rounded 8mm frame edges give the shot recognizable home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a calm establishing insert, travel transition, shoreline cutaway, or memory beat between busier island scenes.
Historical context: The footage records a leisure-oriented coastal view and hillside settlement, but the frames do not identify a specific harbor, landmark, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, though copyright status and any location or property implications should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search phrasing includes 1960s 8mm island coastline, small motorboat on tropical water, Caribbean hillside shoreline, and vintage travel home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then cautiously with same-year Saint Thomas-labeled clips, then with broader 1960s island boating and coastal travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960s 8mm frame of a small white motorboat offshore, with a green hillside and distant light buildings in the background. — A small motorboat sits on calm water below a green hillside shoreline.

Small motorboat crossing or floating near a distant hillside shoreline, framed by rounded 8mm film borders. — The motorboat remains centered against the distant green shoreline.

Soft 8mm view of a small motorboat on open coastal water, backed by a hillside dotted with pale buildings. — A small boat passes before a distant hillside town across the water.

Distant coastal hillside with scattered buildings above blue water, seen through a soft, faded 8mm frame. — The view shifts to the hillside shoreline and clustered buildings across the water.

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