Saint Thomas-1964: Homes On The Beach

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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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Homes On The Beach — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched coastal town on Saint Thomas. White houses and buildings cling to a lush green hillside overlooking turquoise waters, with a small boat visible in the harbor. The footage, framed by the classic black borders of a film projector, shows slight motion blur and natural film grain, evoking a nostalgic 1960s Caribbean vacation. The camera pans across the scenic waterfront, offering a glimpse of island life and architecture from a bygone era.

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: 124000141

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 Caribbean coastal-town footage for documentary inserts, travel-history cutaways, or scene-setting around hillside homes and harbor views.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-1960s waterfront development, with white low-rise buildings, hillside houses, a small harbor boat, and lush island terrain visible from a distance.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot viewpoint, observing the waterfront and hillside from across the water rather than staging people or activity for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include turquoise harbor water, a dark boat mast, white coastal buildings, hillside homes, green vegetation, roads, and black projector-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, handheld drift, mild blur, green-blue color shift, visible grain, and frame-edge borders that signal original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel-memory beat, coastal transition, or visual bridge into a 1960s Caribbean sequence.
Historical context: The view gives visual context for island shoreline settlement and hillside residential patterns without identifying specific buildings, residents, or events.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related concerns should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1964 Saint Thomas home movie, 1960s Caribbean harbor, 8mm island hillside homes, and vintage coastal town footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Saint Thomas or 1964 Caribbean material, then broader 1960s island coastline, harbor, and hillside-home footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 8mm view of a Saint Thomas-labeled waterfront with white buildings, hillside greenery, and a small boat mast near the shore. — Waterfront buildings and hillside greenery appear beyond turquoise harbor water.

Distant 8mm frame of a Saint Thomas-labeled hillside town with white structures, green slopes, and waterfront development below. — The camera looks across a hillside town and shoreline buildings in soft focus.

1964 home-movie frame showing scattered white hillside homes above a coastal town area, with soft grain and projector-edge borders. — Scattered homes sit on the green slope above a compact waterfront district.

Soft 8mm view of a Saint Thomas-labeled hillside neighborhood, with white homes set among dense greenery above the waterfront. — The final frame holds on hillside homes and greenery above the coastal buildings.

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