USA Virgin Islands-1964: Four Men On Boat Ride Showing City In Background

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationUnited States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Four Men On Boat Ride Showing City In Background — Clip Details

Four men ride on a boat in the USA Virgin Islands in 1964, captured on vintage 8mm film. They wear casual 1960s attire—polo shirts and patterned shirts—while looking out over the water. The background reveals a coastal city with low-rise buildings and hills under a cloudy sky. The footage shows natural movement and slight camera shake, with visible film grain and color fading typical of Super 8 home movies from the era. This authentic slice of mid-century Americana offers a nostalgic glimpse into leisure travel and island life.

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: 124003953

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: 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s travel, leisure, and island-visit sequences needing visitor-shot boat footage with people and a coastal city backdrop.
Period detail: Casual collared shirts, patterned fabric, the 8mm color palette, and waterfront buildings may show mid-1960s tourist travel in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged boat-ride viewpoint, with men talking, looking down, and glancing toward the water as the camera drifts with the vessel.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adult men on a boat, blue water, diagonal rigging lines, dark canvas or sail material, waterfront buildings, green shoreline, hills, and cloudy sky.
Film character: The clip has a handheld 8mm look with soft focus, mild exposure variation, visible grain, color fading, and frame-edge obstruction that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a travel insert, coastal transition, leisure cutaway, or memory beat between broader U.S. Virgin Islands or Caribbean vacation scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually documents mid-century recreational boating and shoreline development from a visitor perspective without supporting claims about a specific harbor or event.
Research note: Adult faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright; no logos or obvious private property are identifiable in these frames.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1964 U.S. Virgin Islands home movie boat ride, 1960s coastal city from water, 8mm tourist travel footage, and men on boat archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1964 U.S. Virgin Islands coastal material, then broader 1960s boating and island-travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Adult men ride on a boat in 1964 U.S. Virgin Islands footage, with waterfront buildings and hills visible across the water. — Men sit near the edge of a boat as a coastal city and hills pass in the background.

Men in casual 1960s shirts sit on a boat in U.S. Virgin Islands travel footage, with water and shoreline buildings behind them. — Boat passengers sit below rigging lines with a waterfront city visible beyond the water.

A handheld 8mm frame shows men aboard a boat, partly obscured by canvas or sail material, with U.S. Virgin Islands shoreline in back. — Dark canvas frames passengers on a boat as shoreline buildings and hills appear across the water.

Several adult men on a boat appear in 1964 U.S. Virgin Islands home-movie footage, with water, waterfront buildings, and hills behind them. — Passengers gather along the boat side while the camera looks toward the waterfront and hills.

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