A pink cottage with a white roof stands behind palms above beach chairs, filmed from the water in Bermuda, circa 1948.
1948 · Bermuda
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The pink cottage slides toward the left edge as palms and dense greenery fill the view, 1948
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- 1948
- Location
- Bermuda
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- Still 3 · 5.44s into the source clip
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Palm-lined Bermuda beach circa 1948, the pink cottage leaving frame left as the camera pans along the shore.
The source is catalogued as 8mm home movie. This frame appears 5.44 seconds into the clip. Watch the source footage below to see the surrounding action.
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As the pan moves right, a coral-rock outcrop and more beach chairs appear below the cottage.
1948 · Bermuda
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The shot ends on palms and greenery along the beach, with the edge of a boat or float entering at lower right.
1948 · Bermuda
Still image · $49
Source footage and archive context
Bermuda-1948: Slow Pan From the Water Along a Palm-Lined Beach Past a Pink Cottage
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Source format: 8mm home movie.
Browse the collection: 1940s collection.
Date documentation · estimated
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Location documentation · estimated
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Period detail
The colour rendering and grain of early 8mm stock and the simple folding beach chairs may show a late-1940s resort setting, though the cottage style itself is centuries old.
Film character
Saturated blues and greens with fine grain, even sunny exposure and slightly soft distant foliage give the shot a genuine early colour 8mm texture.
Historical context
Bermuda's white stepped roofs are whitewashed limestone rain catchers, and passenger liners linked New York and the island from 1919, which frames this as a typical visitor's view.
Research note
No people appear; the film's copyright sits with its rights holder, while the privately owned cottage is identifiable property, so producers should weigh any property release on their own.
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