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Saint Thomas-1964: People Sitting And Eating In The Hotel

$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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People Sitting And Eating In The Hotel — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a lively outdoor café scene in Saint Thomas. Patrons in summer attire sit at white-topped tables under a covered patio with arched columns, enjoying meals and conversation. The warm, slightly faded colors and soft focus evoke a nostalgic 1960s atmosphere, with natural light filtering through the open sides of the structure. The handheld camera moves subtly, offering a candid glimpse into everyday life at a tropical resort.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details
Exterior
Resolution
4K restored master (MP4)
License
Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
124000204

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

  • People visible: Yes
  • Minors 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

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  • chair
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  • eating
  • hotel
  • SAINT thomas
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  • 1960s home movie
  • tropical café scene
  • outdoor dining
  • retro vacation footage
  • Caribbean resort
  • 1960s people eating
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  • vintage archival
  • summer vacation 1964
  • tropical island life
  • classic 1960s
  • candid dining scene
  • old film footage
  • 8mm home movie
  • vintage travel footage
  • editorial footage

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1960s archival requests needing candid resort dining, travel, leisure, or hotel patio atmosphere in home-movie form.
Period detail
The scene may show mid-1960s summer clothing, white patio tables, woven chairs, arched columns, and open-air resort dining architecture.
Home-movie behavior
The value is in the unstaged visitor viewpoint as patrons sit, eat, talk, and move casually through a shaded hotel or café terrace.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include seated adults, white-topped tables, woven chairs, bottles or table items, arched columns, shutters, and a bright exterior building.
Film character
Soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight fading, high-contrast shade, and gentle handheld framing give the clip a period home-movie texture.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a travel-memory insert, resort-life cutaway, dining transition, or atmospheric beat between broader vacation scenes.
Historical context
The footage offers visual context for leisure travel and informal outdoor dining without making claims about the specific hotel, patrons, or event.
Research note
People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from privacy or property concerns.
Research search match
Search phrases might include 1960s 8mm resort café, vintage hotel patio dining, Saint Thomas home movie, and open-air restaurant terrace.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then Saint Thomas or 1964 travel footage, then broader 1960s resort dining and vacation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A 1964 8mm home-movie frame shows adults dining and talking on a shaded open-air hotel or café terrace.
Seated patrons gather at white-topped tables beneath a covered terrace with arched columns.
The camera looks across a shaded terrace where patrons sit at café tables, with a bright building and shutters outside.
A shaded terrace dining area is framed by columns with patrons seated throughout the space.
A closer home-movie view shows adults in summer clothing seated around tables on a covered patio.
Groups of patrons sit and converse at tables on the covered café or hotel patio.
The final frame holds on the open-air dining terrace as patrons sit near columns and a sunlit exterior building.
Patrons remain seated at terrace tables as the camera frames columns, chairs, and the bright exterior beyond.

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