Catalog date: estimated · Catalog location: estimated. Review source evidence · Request a source quality check
This archival clip’s historical metadata references Cuba. Stripe checkout is unavailable for clips with restricted-jurisdiction metadata. Eligible buyers may request manual licensing review, including BTC or SOL payment options where legally permitted.
Country names, locations, and events in the archive are descriptive historical information only and do not indicate that Stockfilm provides services to, from, or within any restricted jurisdiction.
Compare featured footage, popular clips and the full collection.
Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Cuba in 1956, showing a small motorboat gliding across calm water, leaving a white wake. A person swims alongside the boat, creating splashes and ripples. The scene is captured from a high vantage point, possibly from a dock or another boat, with dark framing on the sides suggesting a window view. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded colors, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, personal memory of a summer day on the water.
Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.
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.
Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.
A small boat passes over rippled water as a swimmer creates white splashes beside it.
License this still · $49
The motorboat continues forward with the swimmer visible in the wake beside the hull.
License this still · $49
Adults gather along a tiled covered deck near railings, seen through soft home-movie framing.
License this still · $49
A covered waterfront walkway holds several adults, including a foreground figure wearing a striped head covering.
License this still · $49Browse the same year and place, explore the decade, or compare the location in another year.
Same year and place
293 clips from this year and place. A sample of the footage:
More from Cuba across other decades
1950s footage from around the world
1950s footage also from Cuba
Clips with similar subjects and themes
