Saint Thomas-1964: Coastal Town on Hillside Overlooking Water

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationSaint Thomas, US Virgin Islands
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Virgin Islands

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Coastal Town on Hillside Overlooking Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage footage captures a sun-drenched coastal town nestled on a lush green hillside overlooking turquoise waters. White and pastel-colored buildings with red-tiled roofs cascade down the slope, with boats docked along the waterfront. The scene exudes tropical island charm, with film grain and color fading characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century Caribbean life, perfect for historical documentaries, travel montages, or retro-themed 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: 124000145

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: Saint Thomas, US Virgin Islands Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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: Useful for requests for 1960s 8mm Caribbean coastal-town footage, especially travel, documentary, or memory-sequence inserts.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century waterfront development, with low-rise pale buildings, red roofs, sailboats, and a green hillside visible from across the water.
Home-movie behavior: The view feels like visitor-shot home-movie footage taken from a boat or shoreline, holding on the townscape without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include turquoise water, moored sailboats, a waterfront quay, pale hillside buildings, red-tile roofs, green slopes, and clouds.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and steady but informal handheld framing.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a Caribbean establishing insert, travel transition, waterfront cutaway, or quiet memory beat.
Historical context: The frames document a coastal settlement seen from the water, emphasizing hillside housing, marina activity, and tropical terrain without visible people.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-release needs should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1964 8mm Caribbean waterfront, Saint Thomas home movie town view, tropical hillside harbor, and vintage coastal travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Saint Thomas or 1964 Caribbean material, then broader island harbor and hillside-town footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 8mm frame of a pale waterfront town on a green hillside, with boats along turquoise water. — A hillside coastal town rises above a waterfront with moored boats and green slopes behind it.

Soft 8mm view of a coastal town and marina below a green hillside, identified by metadata as Saint Thomas. — Boats line the waterfront beneath pale hillside buildings and tropical greenery.

1964 home-movie frame showing a waterfront town with hillside houses, arched structures, and boats along the shore. — The camera holds on hillside housing and waterfront architecture beside the harbor.

Vintage 8mm harbor view of a coastal hillside town with moored boats, pale buildings, and dense green slopes. — A harbor foreground frames pale buildings and boats at the base of a green hillside.

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