Nassau Bahamas-1961: Tropical Resort With Palm Trees And Angular Hotel Architecture

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

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Tropical Resort With Palm Trees And Angular Hotel... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a tropical resort in Nassau, Bahamas. The camera pans across a distinctive hotel with sharp, angular rooflines and a covered walkway, framed by tall palm trees against a bright blue sky. A turquoise umbrella and lush greenery add pops of color to the sun-drenched scene, evoking mid-century vacation nostalgia. The footage shows subtle movement and the characteristic grain of Super 8 film, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, travel history, or retro-themed 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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127585751

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: 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 resort footage suited for editorial sequences on Caribbean tourism, mid-century travel, hotel architecture, or vacation memory in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The angular roofline, covered hotel walkway, turquoise patio umbrella, and visitor-shot framing may show early-1960s resort style in Nassau.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a tourist home-movie viewpoint, lingering on palms, shade structures, and hotel exteriors rather than staged activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall palm trees, a jagged roofline, covered columns, balcony railings, a turquoise umbrella, parked vehicles, greenery, and a distant person.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, dense shadows, bright tropical exposure, visible grain, and slight handheld movement as useful archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a travel-history cutaway, resort exterior insert, location transition, or brief nostalgic vacation beat.
Historical context: The scene reflects leisure travel imagery through a visitor's camera, with emphasis on tropical landscaping and modern resort forms rather than local street life.
Research note: Rights review should consider copyright status, hotel/property identification, and any distant likeness issues; no logos are apparent in these frames.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1961 Nassau Bahamas 8mm resort exterior, Caribbean hotel palm trees home movie, and mid-century tropical tourism footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1961 Nassau material, then broader Caribbean resort, travel, and hotel architecture clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Nassau resort exterior with palm trunks, sharp roof peaks, deep shade, and a turquoise umbrella in the foreground. — Palm trees frame an angular hotel exterior and shaded resort courtyard.

Palm trees stand before a Nassau resort walkway with repeated angular roof forms, columns, and a turquoise umbrella. — A palm-lined hotel walkway appears behind a bright turquoise patio umbrella.

Nassau hotel exterior with palm trees, a shaded walkway, repeated roof points, parked vehicles, and a turquoise umbrella. — The camera angle opens to more of the covered hotel walkway and courtyard shade.

1961 Nassau resort walkway with angular roof peaks, palms, a turquoise umbrella, railings, and a distant person near the building. — A distant person is visible near the shaded hotel walkway beneath angular roof forms.

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