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Cuba-1956: View From A Balcony Of Ornate Buildings With Arched Windows

  • Year1956
  • Decade1950s
  • LocationCuba
  • Duration5s
  • Collection1956 Cuba

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View From A Balcony Of Ornate Buildings With Arched Windows — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Cuba in 1956, captured from a balcony view overlooking neighboring buildings. The clip reveals ornate, multi-story structures with arched windows and decorative towers, typical of mid-century Caribbean architecture. The camera pans slowly across the urban landscape, revealing a white Adirondack chair and a small table on the foreground balcony. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and soft focus, characteristic of home movie footage from the era. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere of daily life in a historic Cuban city.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution
4K restored master (MP4)
License
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Duration
5s
Payment
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Clip ID
120973196

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

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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

  • balcony
  • table
  • lounge
  • brick
  • building
  • large
  • windows
  • ornate
  • towers
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  • chair
  • view
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  • buildings
  • landmarks
  • cuba
  • 1956
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  • balcony view
  • ornate buildings
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  • vintage home movie
  • mid-century architecture
  • Caribbean city
  • historic footage
  • retro film
  • architectural details
  • arched windows
  • decorative towers
  • urban landscape
  • film grain
  • nostalgic footage
  • archival footage
  • old footage
  • classic film
  • documentary footage

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1950s Cuba urban exteriors, balcony-view cutaways, and documentary sequences needing quiet residential architecture from home-movie footage.
Period detail
The ornate arched windows, pale masonry facades, roofline towers, and foreground balcony furniture may show mid-century Cuban urban residential surroundings.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has a visitor-shot balcony perspective, observing nearby buildings and terrace furniture without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include ornate multi-story facades, arched windows, pale walls, a balcony parapet, a white slatted chair, and a small round table.
Film character
The 8mm image carries soft focus, muted color, light grain, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of a scanned home-movie reel.
Edit role
An editor could use this as an establishing insert, quiet transition, city cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a Cuba travel or family-history sequence.
Historical context
The view suggests everyday urban surroundings in Cuba, with residential facades and terrace furniture seen from an elevated private or hotel-like vantage point.
Research note
No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but architecture and balcony settings should still be reviewed for property and copyright context.
Research search match
Matches searches for 1956 Cuba 8mm balcony view, Cuban city architecture, ornate arched windows, urban home movie exterior, and vintage terrace cutaway.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Cuba 1956 exteriors, then broader Caribbean balcony, street, and architectural home-movie views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Cuba home-movie frame showing a pale multi-story facade with arched windows, balconies, and decorative roofline towers.
Balcony view toward an ornate building facade with arched windows.
1956 Cuba balcony-view frame with ornate windows on one facade and a plainer neighboring wall with small rectangular windows.
Neighboring buildings fill the view as the camera pans across the facade.
1956 Cuba terrace view with a pale building wall beyond a balcony parapet and a white slatted chair in the foreground.
Foreground balcony furniture appears against neighboring building walls.
1956 Cuba home-movie frame showing balcony furniture in the foreground and pale multi-story buildings beyond.
A white chair and small table sit on the balcony before nearby buildings.

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