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Cuba-1956: Banana Trees With Leaves Blowing In The Wind

  • Year1956
  • Decade1950s
  • LocationCuba
  • Duration5s
  • Collection1956 Cuba

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Banana Trees With Leaves Blowing In The Wind — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Cuba in 1956, showing a lush banana plantation with large green leaves swaying in the wind. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and subtle frame jitter typical of mid-century amateur recordings. The camera pans slowly across the tropical foliage, capturing the dense growth of banana trees under bright daylight. The footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into Caribbean agriculture and everyday life during the 1950s, with authentic film artifacts preserved in the original 8mm format.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details
Exterior
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
120973828

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
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

  • summer
  • plants
  • leaves
  • trees
  • warm
  • wind
  • outdoor
  • blowing
  • nature
  • cuba
  • 1956
  • 1956 Cuba footage
  • vintage 8mm film
  • banana plantation
  • tropical foliage
  • 1950s home movie
  • retro film
  • archival footage
  • outdoor nature
  • wind blowing leaves
  • Caribbean agriculture
  • classic film
  • 8mm home movie
  • nostalgic footage
  • warm climate
  • vintage nature
  • historical footage
  • film grain
  • analog film
  • tropical trees
  • documentary footage

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Supports 1950s Cuba or Caribbean agriculture requests needing brief 8mm foliage cutaways for documentary, museum, educational, or editorial use.
Period detail
Visible clues are limited to color 8mm home-movie texture and tropical banana plants, with the 1956 Cuba identification supplied by clip metadata rather than landmarks.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has an amateur traveler or family-filmmaker perspective, lingering on windblown banana trees without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame
The frames show banana leaves, fibrous trunks, dense tropical growth, bright sky, black 8mm frame edges, and slight handheld reframing.
Film character
Soft focus, grain, mild fading, overexposed sky, and frame jitter give the footage a mid-century home-movie texture from original 8mm film.
Edit role
Editors can use it as a short establishing insert, tropical cutaway, agricultural transition, or quiet memory beat within a 1950s Cuba sequence.
Historical context
The view records cultivated tropical vegetation and landscape detail, offering context for rural or plantation surroundings without identifying ownership or labor activity.
Research note
No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any location or property concerns for their use.
Research search match
Useful for searches such as 1950s Cuba 8mm banana trees, Caribbean plantation foliage, vintage home movie tropical leaves, and windblown nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other Cuba 1956 material, then broader 1950s Caribbean agriculture or tropical landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Cuba 8mm frame showing banana trees and broad leaves under bright daylight, with visible film borders and soft exposure.
Banana leaves and trunks fill the frame in bright tropical light.
Banana plants in Cuba, identified by metadata, with broad leaves and fibrous trunks captured on soft 8mm color film.
Broad banana leaves and trunks appear against an overexposed sky.
Windblown banana foliage fills a 1956 Cuba home-movie frame, with soft color, grain, and slight handheld composition.
Dense banana foliage fills the lower-left frame of the contact sheet.
A 1956 Cuba 8mm view of banana trees and green leaves, with visible grain, faded color, and black film edges.
Banana trees and leaves stand in bright daylight near the end of the clip.

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