Saint Thomas-1964: Cruise Ship Anchored Near Palm Tree Lined Shore

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Year1964
Decade1960s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Cruise Ship Anchored Near Palm Tree Lined Shore — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a tropical waterfront scene in Saint Thomas. The view, framed by a window, shows a large cruise ship anchored in the turquoise bay, with lush green palm trees and foliage lining the shore. Cars are parked along the road below, and the image has the characteristic grain, color saturation, and slight instability of Super 8 footage. The scene evokes a sense of mid-century travel and island leisure, perfect for nostalgic or historical content.

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: 124000229

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm travel footage for productions needing a brief Caribbean waterfront view with a cruise ship, palms, road traffic, and a visitor-framed vantage point.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-1960s island tourism through visible period cars, a large ship in the bay, waterfront lighting, and tropical roadside planting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from behind a dark window frame, giving the scene the casual, observational feel of a traveler filming from indoors or a shaded overlook.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a bay, anchored cruise ship, palm trees, roadside cars, lampposts, dense foliage, hills, and a dark interior window frame.
Film character: The 8mm image has saturated greens, soft focus, visible grain, exposure fluctuation, and slight handheld instability that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel-memory cutaway, waterfront transition, or visual bridge in a mid-century cruise sequence.
Historical context: The view places leisure travel beside everyday waterfront infrastructure, with cars and shoreline plantings between the camera and the anchored ship.
Research note: People or human likenesses may be present in the foreground silhouette, so copyright, likeness, location, and any property concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s 8mm Caribbean cruise ship, Saint Thomas waterfront home movie, palm-lined shore travel footage, and vintage island harbor scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with Saint Thomas or 1964 travel footage, and then with broader cruise, harbor, and tropical shore material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960s 8mm travel view of a cruise ship in a bay beyond palm trees, parked cars, and a dark interior window frame. — A ship sits offshore beyond palms and roadside traffic, framed from a shaded interior viewpoint.

Cruise ship and tropical shore appear beyond palms, parked cars, lampposts, and a dark window division in archival 8mm footage. — The waterfront road and palms partially obscure a large ship anchored in the bay.

A tropical waterfront with palms, cars, road signs, and an anchored ship is filmed from a shaded window or balcony area. — Roadside traffic, palms, and a bay with a ship fill the visitor-shot waterfront view.

The final frame shows a ship offshore near a green hillside, with palms, streetlights, cars, and a dark window frame in the foreground. — A ship remains anchored beyond the palm-lined road and hillside shoreline.

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