San Juan Puerto Rico-1964: Colonial Building with Palm Trees

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationSan Juan, Puerto Rico
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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

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Colonial Building with Palm Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a stately colonial building in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The footage features a grand structure with white columns, ornate balustrades, and a blue-and-white facade, framed by lush palm trees. The camera moves slightly, offering different angles of the architectural details and tropical landscaping. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic vignette of an old home movie, evoking a nostalgic mid-century Caribbean atmosphere.

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: 124000398

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 1085 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: winter, lake,ice fishing,46th anniversary,party,sailboat,puerto rico
Reel-level year note: 1964-1965-1966-1967-1968
Reel-level location note: puerto rico
Date: 1964 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: Useful for 1960s editorial projects needing a brief San Juan architectural exterior or tropical colonial streetscape cutaway.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century 8mm color footage of a columned, blue-and-white colonial-style facade with palms, consistent with the 1964 San Juan metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on facade details through slight handheld movement rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white columns, blue facade panels, balustrades, shuttered openings, arched windows, palm fronds, tree foliage, and dark film borders.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm grain, soft focus, mild color fading, exposure variation, and gate-edge vignetting that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing insert, travel-memory beat, architectural cutaway, or transition within Puerto Rico or Caribbean material.
Historical context: The view documents a tropical urban exterior and colonial-revival architectural details without showing identifiable people or street activity.
Research note: No faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, building identity, and property permissions should be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1964 San Juan 8mm home movie, Puerto Rico colonial building exterior, palm trees, and vintage Caribbean architecture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1964 San Juan material, then broader Puerto Rico architecture or tropical city exterior footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 San Juan home-movie view of a colonial-style building facade with white columns, balcony railings, and palm fronds. — Palm fronds frame white columns and upper balcony details on a blue-and-white facade.

1964 San Juan exterior view showing a pale colonial-style facade, palm fronds, and a dark window or doorway opening. — A palm crown overlaps a pale facade with molded trim and a dark opening.

1964 San Juan home-movie frame of the building's lower facade with arched windows, balcony railing, palm trunk, and tree foliage. — Arched windows, a palm trunk, and balcony trim appear across the lower facade.

1964 San Juan exterior detail with palm fronds, angled shadow, dark window opening, and colonial-style trim on the facade. — Palm fronds cross a shadowed section of the pale blue-and-white building exterior.

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