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Cuba-1956: Women Applying Sunscreen on Beach Under Umbrella

  • Year1956
  • Decade1950s
  • LocationCuba
  • Duration5s
  • Collection1956 Cuba

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Women Applying Sunscreen on Beach Under Umbrella — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Cuba in 1956 captures a sunny beach day with two women enjoying the seaside. One woman in a pink strapless swimsuit stands with her back to the camera, while another in a red and white striped swimsuit applies sunscreen under a colorful beach umbrella. The ocean waves roll onto the sandy shore, and the film's characteristic grain and color saturation evoke a nostalgic mid-century American vacation. The scene shifts to a man walking along the water's edge, highlighting the relaxed, carefree atmosphere of a 1950s beach outing.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution
4K restored master (MP4)
License
Manual review required — request licensing
Delivery
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Duration
5s
Payment
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Clip ID
120972288

Rights & Clearance

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 record not linked for this clip
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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

  • ocean
  • sunscreen
  • sand
  • umbrella
  • waves
  • blue
  • fun
  • weather
  • hot
  • bathing-suit
  • windy
  • health care
  • cuba
  • 1956
  • 1956 Cuba beach
  • vintage 8mm film
  • 1950s beach vacation
  • retro swimsuit
  • sunscreen application
  • beach umbrella
  • ocean waves
  • vintage home movie
  • mid-century family
  • 1950s fashion
  • classic film footage
  • nostalgic beach scene
  • 8mm home movie
  • vintage color film
  • Cuban beach
  • 1950s women
  • beach outing
  • retro vacation
  • archival footage
  • vintage 1950s

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1950s Cuba beach-life requests needing home-movie views of adult vacationers, swimwear, sunscreen use, umbrellas, and shoreline leisure.
Period detail
The strapless swimsuits, beach umbrella, handheld framing, and saturated 8mm color support a mid-1950s vacation setting, consistent with the supplied Cuba 1956 metadata.
Home-movie behavior
The clip preserves an unstaged beach moment as women handle sunscreen and react near the camera before the view shifts to a solitary man at the waterline.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include two adult women in swimsuits, a striped beach umbrella, yellow sunscreen container, sand, seaweed, ocean waves, lounge chairs, and a man by the surf.
Film character
The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, high-contrast sun exposure, gate edges, and handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for mid-century seaside travel, personal vacation, or casual beach routine sequences.
Historical context
The footage shows adult beachgoers in leisure dress and sunscreen-related behavior, offering social texture for resort or shoreline recreation without identifying a specific beach.
Research note
People and faces are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from subject clearance.
Research search match
Matches searches for Cuba 1956 8mm beach vacation, 1950s women applying sunscreen, home movie shoreline umbrella, and mid-century swimsuit footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Cuba 1956 beach or travel footage, then broader 1950s seaside leisure and vacation home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

Cuba 1956 home-movie frame showing two adult women on a beach, one turned away in a pink swimsuit and another near an umbrella with sunscreen.
Two women stand near a beach umbrella as ocean waves roll behind them.
Cuba 1956 beach frame with a woman in a pink strapless swimsuit looking back as another woman stands under a striped umbrella holding sunscreen.
A woman turns toward the camera while another stands in the shade of a striped umbrella.
Cuba 1956 home-movie beach frame showing a woman in a pink swimsuit looking down near sand and surf, with another woman partly hidden by an umbrella.
A beachgoer looks down while standing near the umbrella and shoreline.
Cuba 1956 beach frame showing an adult man near the surf, with empty lounge chairs, sand, seaweed, and blue water in the background.
A man pauses near the shoreline as waves break behind him.

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