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

$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 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.

Open Clip Documentation RecordRequest source information

Topics & Keywords

  • buildings
  • river
  • lake
  • sunny
  • white
  • red
  • roof
  • boat
  • town
  • set
  • bottom
  • grassy
  • tree
  • filled
  • hill
  • body
  • water
  • landmarks
  • SAINT thomas
  • 1964
  • Saint Thomas 1964
  • 8mm film
  • vintage home movie
  • tropical town
  • coastal village
  • Caribbean scenery
  • 1960s footage
  • archival film
  • retro travel
  • island life
  • waterfront homes
  • green hillside
  • sailboat
  • tropical landscape
  • vintage travel
  • nostalgic footage
  • 8mm home movie
  • classic film
  • historical footage
  • scenic view

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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