Saint Thomas-1964: A Coastal Town At The Base Of A Grassy Hillside

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Year1964
Decade1960s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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

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A Coastal Town At The Base Of A Grassy Hillside — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a scenic coastal town nestled at the base of a lush, green hillside. White buildings with red roofs cluster along the waterfront, with a sailboat visible on the calm blue water. The footage, viewed through a dark frame, shows slight camera movement as it pans across the tropical landscape, highlighting the dense foliage and the town's layout. The warm, slightly faded colors and film grain evoke a nostalgic, mid-century Caribbean atmosphere.

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: 124000116

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm coastal-town footage for documentary inserts, travel-history sequences, or establishing views of a Caribbean waterfront landscape.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century waterfront buildings, small boats, and hillside development, with the 1964 date supported by supplied metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The view has a visitor-shot perspective, observing the town from across the water through a dark film-frame edge rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, clustered white buildings, red roofs, a grassy hillside, small boats or masts, shoreline structures, and dense tropical foliage.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, warm faded color, slight handheld movement, and dark frame borders that carry the feel of original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, coastal cutaway, or memory beat before or after more specific Saint Thomas material.
Historical context: The footage records a waterfront settlement at the base of green hills, offering visual context for coastal layout, vegetation, and small-scale shoreline activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search language includes 1960s 8mm Caribbean coastal town, Saint Thomas waterfront home movie, hillside harbor view, and vintage tropical shoreline footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with confirmed Saint Thomas or 1964 material, then with broader Caribbean waterfront and travel-home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 8mm frame showing a waterfront town below a grassy hillside, with pale buildings and a sailboat mast near the shore. — Waterfront buildings and a sailboat mast sit below a green hillside.

1964 8mm frame of a coastal settlement identified by metadata as Saint Thomas, with hillside homes above the waterfront. — A shoreline settlement spreads across the base of a green hill.

1964 home-movie frame with faded color and grain, showing a coastal town below dense green hillside vegetation. — The camera holds on a soft, grainy view of town and hillside.

1964 8mm frame showing a hillside shoreline with scattered buildings, small boats, and calm water, viewed through dark film borders. — Buildings and boats line the water beneath a steep green hillside.

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