Saint Thomas-1964: Historic Tower with Cross and Flags

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationUnited States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Historic Tower with Cross and Flags — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a historic stone tower in Saint Thomas, its weathered facade topped with a cross and two flags flying against a bright blue sky. Palm trees sway gently in the foreground, framing the tropical scene under sunny, clear conditions. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a Caribbean landmark from the mid-1960s. The camera remains steady, focusing on the structure's architectural details and surrounding greenery, evoking a sense of place and time.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124000274

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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: United States 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: 1960s 8mm Caribbean travel footage for documentary inserts needing a visitor view of a stone tower, flags, palms, and sunny tropical architecture.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-1960s visitor view of Saint Thomas, with period cues in the saturated 8mm color, steady framing, and tourist-style attention to a landmark facade.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of an unstaged home-movie travel glance, holding on the tower from street level as palms partially obscure the building.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a round stone tower, a cross-like roof detail, two flagpoles with flags, shuttered windows, palm fronds, blue sky, clouds, and surrounding greenery.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows dense grain, rounded frame edges, saturated blues and greens, slight softness, and steady handheld exposure typical of small-gauge travel film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, tropical travel cutaway, location transition, or memory beat within a 1960s Caribbean sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a visitor-facing view of tropical architecture and civic or religious-looking symbols without proving the building identity from the frames alone.
Research note: Human review should consider any visible people flagged in the clip, the unreadable sign or marks, and separate copyright questions from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Researchers might find this under 1964 Saint Thomas 8mm travel footage, Caribbean stone tower with flags, palm trees and historic building, or tropical home movie landmark.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Saint Thomas or 1964 travel footage, then broader Caribbean landmarks, flags, palms, and sunny architecture.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Saint Thomas home-movie frame showing a round stone tower with shuttered windows, roof flags, palm fronds, and bright sky. — A stone tower rises behind palms, with flags above and shuttered windows visible in the facade.

Saint Thomas 1964 travel frame of a round stone tower topped by flags, partly covered by palm fronds under a blue sky. — Flags fly above the tower while a palm tree crosses the foreground in the sunny scene.

1964 Saint Thomas frame showing the stone tower closer in view, with a cross-like roof detail, windows, palms, and tropical foliage. — The camera holds on the tower's upper facade, framed by palm leaves and surrounding greenery.

Saint Thomas 1964 8mm frame of a historic-looking stone tower with roof flags, palm fronds in front, and trees at the side. — A palm tree partially covers the tower as flags and a bright sky remain visible above it.

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