Saint Thomas-1964: Green Island Landscape with Coastal Buildings

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

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Green Island Landscape with Coastal Buildings — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a lush green island landscape from across a bay. The footage shows rolling hills covered in dense vegetation, with scattered white buildings nestled along the slopes. The view shifts across the terrain, revealing a coastal settlement with houses and structures near the water's edge. The image has the characteristic grain and color saturation of 1960s Super 8 film, with a teal-tinted sky and vibrant greens. This archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse of Saint Thomas, showcasing its natural beauty and early development.

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: 124000081

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

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1960s Caribbean or island-establishing requests needing archival home-movie landscape footage for documentary, museum, education or commercial edits.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft focus, handheld framing and hillside development may show a mid-1960s visitor view of a green island settlement.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler perspective, scanning distant hills and shoreline buildings without posed subjects or arranged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green hills, scattered pale buildings, a teal sky, coastal settlement edges, vegetation, roads or paths, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has dense grain, saturated greens, slight blur, teal sky color, and handheld 8mm framing that reads as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, travel transition, geographic cutaway, or quiet memory beat before or after coastal-island scenes.
Historical context: The view suggests an island community set into steep green terrain, with modest visible development and no identifiable public event in frame.
Research note: No people, logos or audible music are visible or flagged, but location, property identification and copyright status still need normal rights review.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1960s 8mm island landscape, Caribbean hillside settlement, vintage home movie bay view, and green tropical coast.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1964 or possible Saint Thomas material, then broader Caribbean island landscape and coastal settlement footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960s 8mm-style view of a lush island hillside with scattered pale structures and dark film-frame borders. — Distant green hillside with sparse buildings along the lower slope.

Handheld 8mm view across green island hills, with a light-colored structure or terraces near the lower right edge. — Rolling green hills with a pale structure at the edge of frame.

Distant hillside and partial settlement seen through soft, grainy 8mm color footage, with buildings below the slope. — Hillside landscape above a small cluster of pale buildings.

Archival 8mm view of green hills and a coastal or hillside settlement, possibly in Saint Thomas based on clip metadata. — Scattered hillside buildings set among dense green vegetation.

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