Saint Thomas-1964: Forested Island with Buildings Across Bay

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationSaint Thomas, US Virgin Islands
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Virgin Islands

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Forested Island with Buildings Across Bay — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a lush green island from across a calm bay. The footage shows a densely forested hillside dotted with scattered white buildings, viewed from a moving perspective, likely from a boat. The teal water contrasts with the vibrant green foliage under a clear sky. The final frame reveals a large white ship docked near the shore, adding a sense of scale and travel. The grainy texture and color palette are characteristic of 1960s Super 8 film, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel.

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: 124000000

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: Saint Thomas, US Virgin Islands 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 Caribbean travel or island-establishing requests needing archival home-movie views across a bay toward green hills and shore buildings.
Period detail: The 8mm color scan, soft focus, teal water, and distant white buildings may show a mid-1960s visitor view of a tropical harbor setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot, moving-boat perspective, valuing the casual observation of shoreline, hillside, and docked ship rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue-green bay water, forested hillsides, scattered white hillside buildings, pale sky, shoreline, and a large white ship near the shore.
Film character: The footage carries physical 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, color shift, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame borders.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief travel insert, harbor transition, island cutaway, or memory beat between wider Caribbean journey scenes.
Historical context: The view suggests leisure travel or harbor approach imagery, with developed hillsides and a ship offering scale without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or vessel identification should be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1964 8mm Caribbean island bay footage, Saint Thomas harbor home movie, green hillside across water, and vintage travel ship cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel footage, then with Saint Thomas or 1964 harbor material, then with broader Caribbean island and boat-view themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Soft 8mm frame of a green hillside and small pale buildings seen across bay water, from a likely moving visitor viewpoint. — Forested hillside and distant shoreline buildings across the bay.

Distant green island hillside, shoreline structures, and teal bay water in a soft, grainy 8mm travel frame. — Shoreline buildings sit below a densely green hillside.

Moving 8mm view of a green island slope with scattered light buildings and bay water in the foreground. — Soft moving view of hillside settlement above the bay.

A large white ship appears near the shoreline beneath a green hillside, seen across teal water in 8mm home-movie footage. — White ship docked or moving near the shoreline below the hills.

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