Saint Thomas-1964: View Towards The Sea From The Mountain Where A Boat And Houses Are Docked

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Year1964
Decade1960s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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View Towards The Sea From The Mountain Where A Boat And... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a scenic view from a mountain overlooking the sea in Saint Thomas. A large white boat is docked near the shoreline, with scattered houses nestled along the coast. The lush green hills rise behind the settlement under a bright sky, with the camera panning slowly to reveal more of the tropical landscape. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, sun-drenched quality typical of mid-century travel films.

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: 124000007

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm travel footage suited for documentary inserts needing a coastal overlook, harbor approach, or Caribbean vacation memory without visible people.
Period detail: The distant white passenger vessel, shoreline houses, and home-movie framing may show mid-1960s leisure travel and harbor scenery, though no landmark is identifiable in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, observing the harbor from across the water or hillside rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green hills, blue sea, a white vessel near shore, small coastal buildings, shoreline vegetation, bright sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture with soft focus, visible grain, green-blue color shift, slight gate shadows, and handheld or panning instability.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, coastal cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a mid-century home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The view suggests tourist or family travel documentation of a tropical harbor landscape, with settlement and marine activity seen at a distance.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable marks are visible, but location, vessel identity, copyright status, and any property-related concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s 8mm coastal harbor footage, Caribbean home movie sea view, mountain overlook with docked boat, and vintage tropical shoreline.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with footage from the same reported Saint Thomas trip or 1964 material, then with harbor, boat, and tropical travel views.

Still Frames From This Clip

Distant white vessel moored near a tropical shoreline, with green hills rising behind and visible 8mm frame borders. — A distant vessel sits near the shore below green hills.

A white boat appears along the coast below green hills, with small shore structures visible in soft 8mm focus. — The harbor view holds on a white boat and scattered coastal structures.

The panning view catches the edge of the vessel and shoreline buildings, with water below and green hillside filling the background. — A panning frame shows the vessel edge and shoreline buildings beneath the hills.

Small coastal buildings and vegetation line the shore, with blue water in front and a green hillside under bright sky. — The pan settles on shoreline buildings and vegetation below the hill.

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