Saint Thomas-1964: White Buildings Nestled in Green Hills, Saint Thomas

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

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White Buildings Nestled in Green Hills, Saint Thomas — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a scenic view of lush green hills on Saint Thomas, with scattered white buildings nestled among the foliage. The footage, framed by a dark border, shows a tranquil coastal landscape with a glimpse of blue water in the foreground. The natural, unfiltered quality of the Super 8 film highlights the era's color palette and grain, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a tropical island setting. The camera appears to be moving, possibly from a boat, providing a dynamic perspective of the island's natural beauty.

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: 124000014

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: 1960s 8mm island shoreline footage suited to documentary inserts, travel-history sequences, and establishing cutaways for Caribbean coastal settings.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-1960s visitor-shot island scenery, with white hillside buildings, blue water, and color 8mm home-movie rendering as the main era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a handheld tourist view from a moving boat, recording the island landscape without staging or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green hills, scattered white buildings, blue coastal water, distant shoreline vegetation, sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, saturated cyan-blue water, and handheld movement typical of small-gauge home movies.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short scenic insert, travel transition, coastal establishing shot, or memory beat between broader island or vacation scenes.
Historical context: The footage documents a leisure-view perspective on a tropical island landscape, emphasizing shoreline, hillside development, and vegetation rather than public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are indicated, but visible buildings and location identity should still be reviewed for copyright, property, and contextual use needs.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s 8mm Saint Thomas island hills, Caribbean home movie shoreline, tropical harbor approach, and vintage boat-view landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1964 Saint Thomas or Caribbean footage, then broader tropical shoreline and boat-travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 8mm view of lush Saint Thomas hills with small white buildings below a blue-green sky. — Hillside buildings sit among dense green vegetation on the island slope.

Distant Saint Thomas hillside with white buildings scattered through tropical greenery in soft 8mm color. — A moving view frames hillside vegetation and small bright buildings in the distance.

Saint Thomas shoreline view with blue water in the foreground and green hillside buildings beyond. — Blue coastal water appears below the green hillside as the camera passes the shore.

Blue coastal water and wooded Saint Thomas shoreline, with a small bright wake near the lower edge. — The final frame emphasizes water and shoreline, with a brief trace of wake in the foreground.

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