US Virgin Islands-1967: Family Trip To The Island

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

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Family Trip To The Island — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1967, this vintage home movie captures a family vacation on a tropical island in the US Virgin Islands. A man in swim trunks wades through turquoise ocean water, walks along a sandy beach, and stands at the shoreline, gazing at the waves. Lush green vegetation and rocky cliffs frame the coastline under bright sunlight. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color saturation, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, personal memory of a summer getaway.

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: 125318712

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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: 1967 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

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: 1960s 8mm vacation footage useful for documentary or editorial sequences about family travel, beach leisure, and island tourism in the US Virgin Islands.
Period detail: The clip may show 1967-era resort or beach travel through swim trunks, handheld visitor framing, saturated color, and casual shoreline activity rather than formal tourism imagery.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in an unstaged vacation moment as a man wades, walks, and pauses at the surf while another swimmer appears offshore.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include turquoise water, pale sand, surf wash, a shirtless adult man in dark trunks, distant swimmer, rocky shoreline, and dense green coastal vegetation.
Film character: The 8mm scan has visible grain, soft focus, saturated blues and greens, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that reads as personal home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, beach cutaway, travel transition, or insert for mid-century family vacation atmosphere.
Historical context: The footage reflects leisure travel and shoreline recreation in a tropical US island setting, with no visible signage or landmarks to identify the exact beach.
Research note: People are visible, including a distant swimmer, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are evident, and copyright clearance is separate.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1960s 8mm US Virgin Islands beach vacation, vintage family trip ocean footage, and home movie tropical shoreline.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from this reel, then same US Virgin Islands 1967 material, then broader 1960s family vacation or tropical beach footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1967 US Virgin Islands home-movie frame showing a swimmer in turquoise water below a green, rocky shoreline. — A distant swimmer floats in bright blue water near a tropical shoreline.

1967 US Virgin Islands vacation footage frame with an adult man wading at the edge of a sandy tropical beach. — A man stands in shallow surf at the edge of a bright tropical beach.

1967 US Virgin Islands home-movie frame showing a shirtless adult man on wet sand facing the ocean. — A vacationer pauses on the beach beside the clear blue shoreline.

1967 US Virgin Islands beach frame with an adult man walking at the shoreline beside clear turquoise water. — A man walks along the waterline as small waves reach the sand.

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