Nassau Bahamas-1961: The Grounds And Palm Trees Of A Tropical Hotel Destination

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationNassau, Bahamas
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Nassau Bahamas

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The Grounds And Palm Trees Of A Tropical Hotel Destination — Clip Details

NASSAU BAHAMAS-1961: This vintage 8mm home movie footage captures the sun-drenched grounds of a tropical hotel resort. The clip features a multi-story pink building with white-trimmed windows, surrounded by lush palm trees and green shrubbery. A small patio area with chairs and a table is visible in the foreground, suggesting a quiet vacation setting. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and a slightly soft focus, evoking a nostalgic 1960s holiday atmosphere. The camera pans slowly across the scene, offering a glimpse into mid-century tropical leisure and architecture.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127584312

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 1121 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: trip to florida,nassau,browns hotel,spring,woodpecker build nest,tree,catfish caught river,flowers,tulip
Reel-level year note: 1960-1961
Reel-level location note: florida,nassau
Date: 1961 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: Nassau, 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: 1961 Nassau 8mm resort exterior footage for productions needing a brief mid-century tropical hotel, vacation, or Caribbean travel cutaway.
Period detail: The pastel multi-story hotel facade, metal patio chairs, palms, and 8mm color palette may show early-1960s tropical resort architecture and leisure styling.
Home-movie behavior: The slow visitor-shot pan observes hotel grounds without staging, preserving the quiet perspective of a vacationer recording surroundings.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pink hotel building, white-trimmed windows, palms, shrubs, patio chairs, a round table, lawn, and balconies.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm grain, warm color shifts, mild exposure variation, and handheld movement that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel transition, resort cutaway, or memory beat within a Bahamas vacation sequence.
Historical context: The footage places tropical hotel landscaping and mid-century leisure architecture within a Nassau vacation setting, without showing guests or staff.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are visible or indicated, but copyright, location identification, and exterior property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1961 Nassau Bahamas 8mm hotel grounds, vintage tropical resort exterior, palm trees vacation home movie, and Caribbean travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1961 Nassau material, then broader tropical hotel, palm-lined resort, and vacation travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Nassau hotel grounds with a pink facade, white-trimmed windows, palms, shrubs, and patio seating in soft 8mm color. — Hotel garden area with palms and patio seating outside a pink multi-story building.

1961 Nassau resort exterior showing a pink hotel corner, palm trees, balcony railings, shrubs, and patio seating. — Palm-lined hotel corner with balcony details and garden seating.

Wider 1961 Nassau resort view with pink hotel walls, palms, hedges, balconies, a round table, chairs, and lawn. — Wider view across landscaped hotel grounds with palms and patio furniture.

1961 Nassau hotel grounds framed by tall palms, with shrubs, lawn, balcony railings, windows, and patio chairs visible. — Palm trees frame the hotel garden and exterior seating area.

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