Saint Thomas-1964: Stone Building with Tropical Plants, Saint Thomas

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

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Stone Building with Tropical Plants, Saint Thomas — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a multi-story stone building in Saint Thomas, surrounded by lush tropical plants and palm trees under a bright blue sky. The camera pans slowly across the structure, revealing its arched doorway and shuttered windows, with a white building visible to the side. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic tropical ambiance, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, travel content, or historical storytelling.

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: 124000285

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip.

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm travel footage useful for productions needing a tropical building exterior, island visitor perspective, or archival location cutaway.
Period detail: The clip may show 1960s Caribbean travel architecture, with arched openings, shuttered windows, stone walls, palm trees, and bright color reversal film rendering.
Home-movie behavior: The view feels like a visitor pausing to record an attractive building facade from across a road, with no staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a stone tower-like facade, arched doorway, shuttered windows, white side building, palm fronds, shrubs, roadway, and blue sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, gate edges, visible grain, color shifts, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, architectural cutaway, or memory beat within a 1960s island sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for mid-century tourist observation of tropical architecture and landscaping without making a specific landmark identification.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but the building should still be reviewed for property, location, and copyright considerations.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s 8mm tropical building exterior, Saint Thomas-labeled home movie, Caribbean stone architecture, and vintage travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Saint Thomas-labeled 1964 material, then with other tropical architecture or Caribbean travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960s 8mm frame of a tropical stone building facade with shutters, arched entrance, palm trees, and a bright sky. — Stone facade with arched doorway and palms seen from across a road.

Visitor-shot 8mm view of a tropical stone building with arched openings, landscaping, palms, and a pale road in front. — Landscaped tropical building exterior with palm trees and road foreground.

Soft 8mm frame showing a stone building entrance partly framed by palm fronds, shrubs, road, and a white side building. — Stone entrance and tropical plants filmed from the roadside.

Later 8mm frame with color shift and soft focus on the tropical stone facade, palm tree, arched doorway, shrubs, and curb. — Soft, color-shifted view of the tropical stone facade and palm landscaping.

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