Bahamas-1969: Marlin Statue in Plaza with Signpost

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationBahamas
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Marlin Statue in Plaza with Signpost — Clip Details

BAHAMAS-1969: This vintage 8mm home movie captures a sunny day at a tropical tourist hub, featuring a prominent white marlin statue in a fountain surrounded by palm trees. A large directional signpost points to various Bahamian islands like Eleuthera and Long Island, with a classic colonial-style building in the background. Visitors stroll through the plaza, some holding umbrellas, under a bright sky with a cruise ship visible in the distance. The footage exhibits the characteristic color shifts and grain of 1960s Super 8 film, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical projects.

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: 125062272

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: 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 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s Bahamas travel, cruise tourism, or tropical plaza cutaways in documentary, education, museum, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The frames show 1969 8mm footage with a tourist signpost, colonial-style waterfront buildings, palm trees, umbrellas, and a cruise ship visible behind the plaza.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, observing public tourist landmarks and pedestrians rather than staged performances.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white marlin fountain statue, directional tourist signpost, palm trees, plaza visitors, umbrellas, columned buildings, balustrades, and a cruise ship.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated color shifts, visible grain, soft focus, exposure variation, and slight handheld framing typical of late-1960s home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a Bahamas travel insert, resort-area transition, plaza cutaway, or brief memory beat within a tourism or Caribbean sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a public tourist hub in the Bahamas, with visitors moving through a sunny plaza arranged around island wayfinding and a marlin sculpture.
Research note: People and possible signage or brand elements are visible, so likeness, trademark, location, and property context should be reviewed separately from footage copyright.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Bahamas 8mm tourist plaza, marlin fountain statue, Caribbean cruise travel home movie, and vintage tropical signpost footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Bahamas 1969 travel scenes, and then with broader Caribbean tourism or cruise-port material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Bahamas home-movie frame showing a tourist signpost, palm trees, and a columned building in a plaza. — A directional tourist signpost stands before a columned building and palms.

1969 Bahamas frame with island directional signage, palms, and a white-columned tourist-area building. — Island wayfinding signs appear against a sunlit building facade.

1969 Bahamas plaza view with a white marlin fountain statue, umbrellas, visitors, and a cruise ship in the background. — A white marlin sculpture rises from a plaza fountain near waterfront buildings.

1969 Bahamas home-movie frame showing the marlin fountain statue, plaza visitors, umbrellas, and waterfront architecture. — Visitors gather around the marlin fountain in a tropical tourist plaza.

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