Venezuela-1959: Rescue Buoy at Virgin Isle Hotel

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationVenezuela
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Venezuela

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Rescue Buoy at Virgin Isle Hotel — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm film clip from 1959, showing a white round rescue buoy hanging from a golden rail. The buoy features bold black lettering that reads 'VIRGIN ISLE' and later 'HOTEL', indicating a luxury resort setting. The footage captures the buoy in close-up, with a textured wall and vertical slats visible through its center. The image has the characteristic grain and color saturation of 8mm home movie footage, evoking a nostalgic mid-century travel memory. The scene suggests a tropical vacation destination in Venezuela.

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: 124869131

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: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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: 1959 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: Venezuela 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 1950s travel, resort, cruise, or leisure productions needing a brief archival cutaway of mid-century hotel signage on 8mm film.
Period detail: The white ring buoy, painted rail, and bold black hotel lettering may show mid-century resort or nautical safety decor consistent with the 1959 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, lingering closely on a hotel rescue buoy as a small travel-memory detail rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white round buoy, black Virgin Isle and Hotel lettering, a gold rail, dark vertical edges, wall panels, slatted shutters, and 8mm frame grain.
Film character: The footage shows saturated 8mm color, visible grain, soft focus shifts, slight handheld framing, and uneven exposure that support its home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a resort establishing insert, nautical transition, vacation-memory beat, or object cutaway between broader travel scenes.
Historical context: The frames suggest leisure travel around a named hotel or resort setting, but the visible evidence is limited to the buoy, rail, and surrounding architectural details.
Research note: No people are visible, but the readable Virgin Isle Hotel text should be reviewed for trademark, copyright, and location-identification concerns before publication.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 8mm Venezuela travel footage, vintage hotel rescue buoy, mid-century resort signage, and home movie vacation cutaways.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Venezuela 1959 travel material, then broader mid-century resort, hotel, yacht, or vacation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Venezuela 8mm frame showing a white Virgin Isle buoy cropped close against a rail and wall panels. — Close view of a Virgin Isle rescue buoy hanging from a rail.

1959 Venezuela home-movie frame with the upper half of a Virgin Isle buoy and rail in close-up. — The buoy lettering remains centered while the lower ring is cropped out.

Close 8mm view of a white Virgin Isle buoy with wall slats visible through its center. — A closer frame emphasizes the buoy text and the slatted background.

1959 Venezuela frame showing more of the round buoy, including HOTEL lettering at the bottom. — The final frame reveals the lower HOTEL lettering on the buoy.

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