Saint Thomas-1964: Ship And Boats Docked In Harbor

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Year1964
Decade1960s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Ship And Boats Docked In Harbor — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil harbor scene in Saint Thomas. The footage shows a large passenger ship and smaller boats moored in calm, green-tinted water, with wooden docks and a hillside visible in the background. The camera pans slowly across the water, revealing the vessels from multiple angles. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: grainy texture, color fading, and a distinct greenish tint, evoking a nostalgic mid-century maritime atmosphere. This archival clip offers authentic historical footage for documentaries, editorial projects, and nostalgic 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: 124000321

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

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: 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s home-movie harbor footage for productions needing a brief maritime insert, travel transition, or Caribbean visitor-perspective establishing detail.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century harbor scene with a large moored vessel, small boats, simple docks, and shoreline structures seen through faded 8mm color.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, observing docked boats and a large ship from a distance without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm green water, a large docked ship, smaller boats, narrow dock sections, shoreline trees, hillside, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, heavy grain, green color shift, exposure variation, gate edges, and contact-sheet-like frame divisions that signal original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short maritime cutaway, travel-memory beat, harbor insert, or quiet transition between broader Caribbean or 1960s vacation scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually documents recreational or passenger harbor activity from a home-movie viewpoint, with vessels and waterfront infrastructure as the main context.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, vessel identity, location, and any property or maritime permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s 8mm harbor footage, Saint Thomas home movie ship, vintage Caribbean boats, docked passenger vessel, and calm water travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Saint Thomas or 1964 travel footage if verified, then broader vintage harbor, ship, boat, and Caribbean vacation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Faded 8mm frame of a large vessel and smaller boats across calm harbor water, with docks and shoreline in the background. — Large vessel and small boats sit across calm harbor water in a faded home-movie frame.

A green-tinted 8mm view across harbor water toward a docked ship, small boats, and shoreline structures. — Docked ship and small boats appear beyond calm green harbor water.

Soft, faded 8mm frame showing part of a large docked vessel, narrow docks, water, and trees along the harbor edge. — A large vessel fills more of the frame beside docks and calm harbor water.

Mostly black 8mm frame area with faint blue light marks and visible film border, likely the end or gap of the brief clip. — The final frame is largely dark, with only faint film marks visible.

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