Bahamas-1969: Old Footage From A Lake In Bahamas With White Houses In The

$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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Old Footage From A Lake In Bahamas With White Houses In The — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage footage captures a serene waterfront view of the Bahamas. The clip shows a calm body of water with a distant shoreline lined with white houses nestled among lush palm trees. The sky is overcast with soft clouds, and the film exhibits a distinct purple color cast typical of aged Super 8 footage. The camera moves slowly, offering a panoramic perspective of the tropical residential area. This authentic home movie captures a nostalgic slice of Bahamian life from the late 1960s, perfect for historical or editorial 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: 125061938

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: Useful for 1960s Bahamas editorial projects needing a short waterfront establishing view from amateur 8mm travel footage.
Period detail: The distant white waterfront houses, palms, and aged color reversal look may show late-1960s tropical residential shoreline architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, with a slow handheld look across calm water toward a shoreline rather than a staged subject.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open water, a distant tree-lined shore, white houses, palm silhouettes, low clouds, and occasional film frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, purple-blue color shift, mild exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame borders as archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel-memory cutaway, or quiet transition into Bahamas or island-residential material.
Historical context: The footage places leisure or travel observation at a waterfront distance, showing shoreline homes and palms without identifiable people or activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-related use should still be checked for the production context.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Bahamas 8mm waterfront, vintage island shoreline, tropical homes across water, and archival home-movie travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Bahamas 1969 waterfront material, then broader 1960s tropical travel and shoreline cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Bahamas 8mm frame showing calm water, a distant palm-lined shoreline, and white waterfront houses under clouds. — Distant white houses and palms seen across calm Bahamian water.

1969 Bahamas waterfront view with blue water in the foreground, white houses among palms, and low clouds overhead. — A tree-lined shoreline with white homes appears across the water.

1969 Bahamas 8mm still showing a low shoreline with white homes and palms viewed from across the water. — White houses sit behind palms along a low shoreline.

1969 Bahamas frame with calm water, distant white shoreline buildings, palms, and a columned structure at the far right. — The pan reaches more shoreline buildings, including a columned structure at right.

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