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Cuba-1956: Green Bungalows with Patios and Palms

  • Year1956
  • Decade1950s
  • LocationCuba
  • Duration5s
  • Collection1956 Cuba

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Green Bungalows with Patios and Palms — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Cuba in 1956 captures a row of pastel green bungalows with flat roofs and white columns, characteristic of mid-century modern resort architecture. The camera pans across the exterior, revealing covered patios with wooden lounge chairs and lush green lawns bordered by low hedges. Tall palm trees frame the scene, emphasizing the tropical setting. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic vignette of home movie footage, offering a nostalgic glimpse into 1950s vacation architecture and leisure culture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution
4K restored master (MP4)
License
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Delivery
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Duration
5s
Payment
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Clip ID
120972206

Rights & Clearance

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
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Date
1956 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
Cuba 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

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Topics & Keywords

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  • vintage architectural style

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1950s Cuba travel, resort, motel, bungalow, and tropical leisure sequences needing exterior architecture from archival home-movie footage.
Period detail
The flat roofs, slim white posts, pastel green walls, metal-framed windows, and patio lounge chairs may show mid-century vacation lodging design.
Home-movie behavior
The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, with a casual pan across quiet rooms, patios, lawn, hedges, and palms rather than a staged architectural survey.
What appears in frame
Visible details include pastel green bungalows, covered patios, white columns, lounge chairs, low hedges, trimmed grass, palm trunks, and rectangular windows.
Film character
The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, light exposure variation, edge vignetting, and mild color fading consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role
An editor could use it as an establishing cutaway, travel-memory insert, transition between vacation scenes, or quiet exterior beat for 1950s Cuba.
Historical context
The footage visually documents tropical lodging and leisure architecture in Cuba without identifying a specific resort, city, owner, or landmark.
Research note
No people, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright, location, and property-context questions should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match
Relevant searches include 1950s Cuba bungalow footage, 8mm tropical motel exterior, Cuban resort patio home movie, and mid-century vacation lodging.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then Cuba 1956 travel footage, then broader 1950s resort, bungalow, palm, and leisure exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Cuba home-movie frame showing a pastel green bungalow with a covered patio, low hedge, windows, and lounge chairs.
A pastel green bungalow exterior with shaded patio seating and a low hedge in front.
1956 Cuba frame with a palm trunk crossing a pastel green bungalow, shaded patio seating, windows, lawn, and hedge.
A palm tree stands before a pastel bungalow with a shaded patio and lounge chairs.
1956 Cuba home-movie frame showing connected bungalow patios, a palm trunk, green lawn, lounge chairs, and low hedging.
The camera angle widens along a row of patios, with palm trees and lawn in front.
1956 Cuba frame showing an angled view of pastel bungalow patios, palm trunks, lounge chairs, windows, and a sunlit lawn.
An angled view looks down the bungalow row, with shaded patios and palms across the lawn.

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