Bahamas-1969: Bungalow Building With Tower In Tropical Street Scene

$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.

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

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

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Bungalow Building With Tower In Tropical Street Scene — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage footage captures a tropical street scene in the Bahamas. A low-slung bungalow-style building stands behind a roadside hedge, with a tall communication tower rising in the background. Palm fronds frame the view in the foreground, swaying gently in the breeze. Classic cars pass by on the road, and a light pole stands near the curb. The film exhibits the characteristic color shift and grain of Super 8 home movies from the era, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel.

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: 125061800

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 1022 · Super 8 · 5″ reel
Original reel label: cruise
Reel-level year note: 1969
Reel-level location note: bahamas
Date: 1969 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: Bahamas 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s Bahamas street-view footage suited to documentary inserts needing tropical roadside architecture, palms, passing cars, and home-movie texture.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1960s visual clues in the low roadside building, period cars, simple street lighting, and communications tower behind tropical planting.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in an unstaged visitor-shot view from across a road, with palm fronds partly obscuring the building as traffic passes through the frame.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale low-rise building, a roadside hedge, palm fronds, light poles, a communications tower, paved lanes, and passing cars.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, soft focus, slight handheld framing, and purple-blue color shift that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing cutaway, transition, or memory beat for Bahamas travel, tropical streets, or mid-century roadside development.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for a built tropical roadside environment in the Bahamas without identifying the building or asserting a specific landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but building identification and property-related concerns should still be reviewed separately from copyright.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Bahamas 8mm street scene, tropical building with tower, palm-framed roadside footage, and vintage home movie traffic cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Bahamas 1969 street or building views, then broader tropical roadside and travel home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Bahamas home-movie frame of a pale roadside building seen through palm fronds, with a hedge, light poles, and a tower in back. — Palm-framed roadside view of a low building with a tower rising behind it.

1969 Bahamas street scene with a low pale building, foreground palm leaves, roadside hedge, poles, cars, and a tall tower. — A tropical street view shows a low building and tower beyond roadside planting.

1969 Bahamas 8mm frame of a roadside building partly obscured by dark palm fronds, with street lanes and a red car visible. — Palm fronds partially cover the view of the low roadside building and passing car.

1969 Bahamas street frame where palm fronds cover much of the view, with a low building, road, hedge, and distant cars behind. — Foreground palm leaves obscure part of the tropical roadside building scene.

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