Saint Thomas-1964: A Glimpse Of The Blue Ocean On A Hot Day

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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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A Glimpse Of The Blue Ocean On A Hot Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched coastal town nestled on a lush green hillside. White houses with terracotta roofs cling to the slopes, overlooking a calm blue ocean. The footage, slightly grainy with classic Super 8 color tones, offers a nostalgic glimpse of daily life in Saint Thomas. The camera pans across the landscape, revealing a waterfront with boats and a prominent sailboat. This archival film is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, and nostalgic projects.

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: 124000108

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

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: 1960s 8mm coastal establishing footage for documentaries needing a brief visitor-shot view of a hillside town and harbor.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century Caribbean coastal development, with low white buildings, terracotta roofs, hillside roads, and a waterfront seen from a distance.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a tourist or traveler filming from an elevated vantage point, lingering on the town rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green hillsides, clustered white houses, red roofs, waterfront buildings, blue water, boats, and dark frame edges from the film scan.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, green-blue color shift, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that reads as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel transition, memory beat, or cutaway before closer harbor or island material.
Historical context: The view documents a coastal settlement built along steep green terrain, with harbor activity implied by boats and waterfront structures.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are visible or flagged, but location identification and any copyright or property considerations still need normal review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s 8mm Caribbean harbor town, Saint Thomas home movie coastline, hillside houses by ocean, and vintage island waterfront.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel shots, then other Saint Thomas or 1964 island footage, then broader coastal town and harbor establishing views.

Still Frames From This Clip

Soft 8mm view of a green hillside with scattered white buildings above a coastal town and waterline. — A distant hillside town and waterfront appear through the dark edges of the film frame.

Distant 8mm frame showing white hillside buildings, greenery, and coastal structures partly divided by a dark film edge. — White buildings dot a green hillside above the coast, partially obscured by the film frame.

Vintage 8mm view of a coastal town at the base of green slopes, with waterfront buildings and small boats visible. — The camera looks down toward waterfront buildings and boats along the edge of a green hillside town.

Distant coastal view with blue water in the foreground, hillside houses behind, and a sailboat mast near the right edge. — Blue water borders the town while hillside houses rise behind a waterfront and sailboat mast.

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