Saint Thomas-1964: Scenic View Of Lush Hills And Coastal Town

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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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Scenic View Of Lush Hills And Coastal Town — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a scenic view of Saint Thomas, showcasing lush green hillsides dotted with white buildings. The camera pans across the tropical landscape, revealing a coastal town with terracotta-roofed structures nestled along the waterfront. The footage, framed by the classic 8mm film border, displays the characteristic grain and color palette of mid-century Super 8 film, offering a nostalgic glimpse of Caribbean life and architecture from the 1960s.

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: 124000133

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: Useful for 1960s archival requests needing a brief visitor-shot coastal Caribbean hillside view as scenic context or travel-era atmosphere.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century waterfront buildings, light-colored hillside homes, and terracotta roofs seen from an elevated or offshore vantage point.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the town from a moving or handheld visitor perspective, valuing the casual look across water and hills rather than a staged view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green hills, scattered white buildings, waterfront structures, blue water, terracotta roofs, roads, and the dark 8mm frame border.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, visible grain, green-shifted color, slight weave, and contact-frame borders that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing cutaway, travel transition, memory beat, or geographic insert between Caribbean or coastal sequences.
Historical context: The frames provide visual context for a hillside coastal townscape and waterfront architecture as captured by a private traveler in the 1960s.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, property, and location identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1960s 8mm Caribbean coastal town, vintage home movie hillside waterfront, tropical harbor buildings, and travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Saint Thomas or 1964 material if verified, then with Caribbean waterfront and hillside town views.

Still Frames From This Clip

Visitor-shot 8mm frame looking across a green hillside with scattered white buildings and a blurred coastal settlement below. — Green hillside and scattered buildings seen through the 8mm frame edge.

8mm frame of a lush hillside coastal town, with pale buildings, tree cover, and a visible vertical film border through the view. — Hillside buildings and roads appear behind the dark 8mm frame divider.

Soft 8mm coastal view showing blue water, a line of waterfront buildings, and green hills rising behind the town. — Waterfront buildings sit between blue water and green hills.

Late frame of the clip with blue water in front, hillside buildings beyond, and dark 8mm frame edges around the view. — Blue water and hillside townscape framed by the 8mm film border.

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