USA Virgin Islands-1964: Quiet Waterfront View of Coastal Town

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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Quiet Waterfront View of Coastal Town — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil waterfront view of a coastal town in the USA Virgin Islands. The camera glides slowly across the calm blue water, revealing a hillside dotted with buildings and lush greenery under a partly cloudy sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and subtle film damage, offering an authentic slice of mid-century island life. This archival clip evokes nostalgia and is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or retro-themed projects.

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: 124003613

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: 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: Useful for 1960s archival requests needing a quiet U.S. Virgin Islands waterfront establishing view or coastal town cutaway from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The view may show mid-century waterfront buildings, hillside homes, a seawall, and harbor infrastructure seen from across calm water.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, observing the shoreline slowly and without staging rather than focusing on people or an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, a coastal seawall, low waterfront buildings, hillside housing, trees, sky, clouds, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, blue color shift, visible grain, gate edges, and slight exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, reflective cutaway, or memory beat for island and harbor sequences.
Historical context: The footage offers a quiet visual record of a coastal townscape in the U.S. Virgin Islands without showing identifiable people or specific public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related concerns should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1964 U.S. Virgin Islands 8mm waterfront, Caribbean coastal town home movie, quiet harbor view, and 1960s island shoreline footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with 1964 U.S. Virgin Islands material, then with broader 1960s Caribbean waterfront views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 U.S. Virgin Islands waterfront view with calm water, low shoreline buildings, and a hillside town in soft 8mm color. — Wide waterfront view across calm water toward hillside buildings.

1964 U.S. Virgin Islands shoreline with blue harbor water, low coastal buildings, hillside housing, and visible 8mm frame edges. — Coastal town and hillside viewed from across the water.

1964 U.S. Virgin Islands coastal view with a seawall at right, waterfront buildings, calm water, and hillside homes beyond. — Waterfront buildings and hillside homes beyond a calm shoreline.

1964 U.S. Virgin Islands waterfront with blue water in the foreground, a seawall, low buildings, and a hillside town under clouds. — Seawall and waterfront townscape beneath a cloudy sky.

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