Saint Thomas-1964: Tropical Island View and Ocean Liner with Flags

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Year1964
Decade1960s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Tropical Island View and Ocean Liner with Flags — Clip Details

SAINT THOMAS-1964: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a tropical island view from a moving boat, with lush green hills and white buildings along the coastline. The scene transitions to a massive ocean liner with a dark hull and white superstructure, adorned with a string of flags against a bright blue sky. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows natural film grain and color fading typical of the 1960s, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 124000033

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s Caribbean travel, cruise, harbor, or ocean-liner sequences needing authentic 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The ocean liner’s dark hull, white decks, signal flags, and faded color 8mm look may show mid-1960s leisure travel and port approaches.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot boat perspective, with the camera shifting from shoreline scenery to a passing ocean liner rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, a green hillside, distant white buildings, a small loaded boat, a large ocean liner, white decks, funnels, and signal flags.
Film character: The footage shows soft handheld framing, visible 8mm grain, color shift, gate edges, and uneven exposure that read as original physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a travel insert, harbor cutaway, cruise transition, or short memory beat within a Caribbean or maritime sequence.
Historical context: The views suggest mid-century tourist movement around a tropical harbor, with small craft near shore and a large passenger ship offshore.
Research note: People appear in the small boat, so likeness review may be needed; no readable brands are visible, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property issues.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1964 8mm Caribbean harbor footage, Saint Thomas-labeled home movie, ocean liner with flags, and vintage boat approach shots.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Saint Thomas-labeled 1964 material, then Caribbean harbors, cruise ships, and tropical coastline footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 8mm-style view from a moving boat toward a green shoreline, with a small passenger boat crossing the foreground. — Small boat with passengers moves near a tropical shoreline and distant white buildings.

Large ocean liner seen close from the water, with white superstructure, dark hull, funnels, and signal flags overhead. — Ocean liner passes across the frame with flags strung above its decks.

Handheld 8mm frame showing the side of a large ocean liner, with rows of windows, signal flags, and wake at the hull. — The liner’s side fills the frame, with flags overhead and water below.

Close 1960s home-movie view of a passenger ship’s white decks, yellow funnel, dark hull, and string of signal flags. — White decks and a funnel rise above the liner’s dark hull as it moves past.

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