Saint Thomas-1964: Tropical Harbor with Ocean Liner Saint Thomas

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

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Tropical Harbor with Ocean Liner Saint Thomas — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched view of a tropical harbor in Saint Thomas. Lush green palm trees and foliage frame the scene, with a large ocean liner visible in the distance across the water. The camera pans slightly, revealing a street with classic 1960s cars and a woman in a yellow dress walking in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, handheld quality, offering a rare glimpse into mid-century island life and travel.

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: 124000243

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: 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s travel, Caribbean harbor, cruise-tourism, or island street cutaways needing real 8mm home-movie atmosphere.
Period detail: The parked cars, waterfront road, palms, and distant passenger ship may show mid-1960s tourist-era harbor life, with Saint Thomas indicated by supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like a visitor filming from behind a window or shaded opening, observing the harbor and street rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a harbor, distant ocean liner, palm trees, leafy foreground, parked cars, streetlights, window bars, and a silhouetted bust or statue.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, green-blue color shift, heavy grain, dark frame edges, and slight handheld movement that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel-memory transition, harbor cutaway, or visual bridge between street life and waterfront activity.
Historical context: The scene suggests leisure travel and waterfront movement in a tropical port setting, while avoiding claims about a specific ship, pier, or neighborhood.
Research note: People appear at a distance or in silhouette, so likeness review may still be needed; no visible logos are clear, and copyright and clearance should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1964 8mm Saint Thomas harbor footage, Caribbean cruise ship home movie, tropical waterfront street, and vintage island travel view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Saint Thomas or 1964 harbor footage, then broader Caribbean travel, cruise ship, and waterfront street scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 8mm harbor view identified by metadata as Saint Thomas, framed by dark bars with foliage and a distant ship across the water. — A distant passenger ship sits across the harbor beyond palms and window framing.

Tropical waterfront scene with parked cars, palms, and a distant passenger ship, identified in metadata as Saint Thomas in 1964. — Cars and palms line the harbor foreground as a passenger ship appears in the distance.

Soft 8mm view of a harbor-side street with clustered cars, palms, trees, and a dark bust or statue in the foreground. — A silhouetted bust or statue overlooks cars and trees near the waterfront.

Final frame shows the same tropical harbor overlook, with parked cars, palms, water, and a silhouetted bust or statue in the foreground. — The view settles on a harbor-side street framed by greenery and a dark foreground figure.

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