Saint Thomas-1964: Vintage Cruise Ship Docked at Tropical Port

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Year1964
Decade1960s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Vintage Cruise Ship Docked at Tropical Port — Clip Details

SAINT THOMAS-1964: A vintage 8mm film clip captures a massive ocean liner docked at a tropical port, its white superstructure and dark hull dominating the frame. A small white boat floats nearby on the blue water, with a gangway connecting it to the ship. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows the classic design of a mid-century cruise ship with rows of windows and a prominent smokestack, evoking a sense of luxury travel and 1960s nostalgia. The image has a distinct retro color palette and film grain, characteristic of home movie footage from the era.

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: 124000048

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 home-movie footage for projects needing a cruise liner or tropical port establishing cutaway.
Period detail: The large white superstructure, dark hull, rows of windows, lifeboats and funnel may show mid-century passenger-ship design.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot view from shore or nearby water, holding on the ship as a small boat drifts beside it.
What appears in frame: A docked ocean liner, blue water, a small white boat, lifeboats, gangway structure, rows of windows and a pale sky are visible.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, blue-green color shift, visible grain, gate edges, dust specks and slight handheld framing.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief travel insert, cruise transition, port cutaway or nostalgic memory beat.
Historical context: The footage reflects leisure travel imagery through a home-movie lens, with the ship dominating the harbor view rather than staged activity.
Research note: No people, logos or readable ship name are visible, but ship identity, port location and underlying copyright should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1960s 8mm cruise ship, vintage ocean liner at port, tropical harbor home movie and mid-century passenger ship.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel travel footage, then with confirmed same-year or same-location port material, then with broader cruise and ocean-liner scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960s 8mm view of a docked ocean liner with white upper decks, dark hull and a small boat on blue water. — A large passenger ship fills the frame while a small boat floats beside the hull.

Docked passenger ship seen from the side, with lifeboats, rows of windows and a small boat below the hull. — The camera holds on the liner's side, showing lifeboats and a small boat near the waterline.

Closer 8mm frame of the ocean liner's side, showing the dark hull, white decks, lifeboats and water foreground. — A tighter view emphasizes the ship's dark hull, white deck structures and blue harbor water.

Final frame of the docked liner, with white superstructure, dark hull, lifeboats and blue water under a pale sky. — The liner remains framed broadside, its upper decks and hull stretching across the harbor view.

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