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Cuba-1956: Tropical Plantation With Banana Trees And Pineapple Fields

  • Year1956
  • Decade1950s
  • LocationCuba
  • Duration5s
  • Collection1956 Cuba

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Tropical Plantation With Banana Trees And Pineapple Fields — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film from Cuba in 1956 shows a lush tropical plantation with banana trees and pineapple fields. The footage captures dense green foliage, large banana leaves, and ripe pineapples growing among spiky plants. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame borders of home movie footage. The scenes are peaceful and serene, offering a glimpse into rural agricultural life in mid-century Cuba. The camera remains mostly static, focusing on the natural environment and the abundance of tropical produce.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details
Exterior
Resolution
4K restored master (MP4)
License
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Delivery
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Duration
5s
Payment
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Clip ID
120973843

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

  • peaceful
  • serene
  • simple
  • escape
  • survival
  • terrifying
  • stressful
  • warm
  • relaxed
  • tasty
  • village
  • people
  • food
  • survive
  • stumbling
  • delicious
  • pineapple
  • education
  • cuba
  • 1956
  • 1956 Cuba
  • tropical plantation
  • banana trees
  • pineapple fields
  • vintage 8mm film
  • 8mm home movie
  • tropical foliage
  • rural Cuba
  • agricultural life
  • vintage footage
  • archival film
  • tropical produce
  • green leaves
  • film grain
  • warm colors
  • natural scenery
  • outdoor
  • vintage home movie
  • historical footage
  • agricultural
  • tropical
  • 1950s
  • Cuba 1956
  • vintage film
  • old film
  • nature
  • plants
  • rural

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Supports 1950s Cuba archive requests needing rural agriculture, tropical crop cultivation, or plantation landscape cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail
The visible 8mm color stock, contact-frame borders, and static home-movie framing support a mid-1950s travel or family-film view of tropical crops in Cuba.
Home-movie behavior
The camera observes banana trees and pineapple plants from a visitor-like distance, giving the footage an unstaged record of cultivated tropical vegetation.
What appears in frame
Frames show broad banana leaves, tall trunks, pineapple plants with spiky leaves, ripening fruit, rows of low crops, soil, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character
The clip carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, faded color, uneven exposure, and frame-edge darkness that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role
Editors can use this as a short agricultural insert, tropical location cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into mid-century Caribbean rural context.
Historical context
The footage visually documents tropical crop growth and rural planted land without showing workers, machinery, buildings, or identifiable estate ownership.
Research note
No people, brands, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or land-use rights should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match
Likely matches searches for 1956 Cuba 8mm plantation footage, banana trees, pineapple field, tropical agriculture, and vintage Caribbean home movie.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Cuba 1956 travel footage, then broader 1950s tropical agriculture or Caribbean crop material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Cuba 8mm frame showing banana trees, large green leaves, and layered tropical foliage in a planted area.
Banana trees and dense foliage fill the tropical plantation view.
1956 Cuba 8mm frame with banana leaves and trunks partly obscured by dark physical film borders.
Banana foliage appears behind the dark vertical frame edge.
1956 Cuba 8mm frame showing pineapple plants, spiky leaves, visible fruit, and planted rows in a tropical field.
Pineapple plants grow in rows with fruit visible among the leaves.
1956 Cuba 8mm frame showing pineapple rows, ripe-looking fruit, spiky foliage, and dark home-movie frame edges.
A close field view shows pineapples growing amid dense spiky leaves.

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