Cuba-1956: A Botanist Look At The Effect Of Insect On Plants

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A Botanist Look At The Effect Of Insect On Plants — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Cuba in 1956 captures a tropical hut with a thatched roof surrounded by lush greenery and palm fronds. The camera pans across the rustic structure, revealing dense foliage and a natural, sun-dappled environment. A person's hand and foot briefly appear, interacting with spiky plants, suggesting a botanist's field study. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and natural lighting, evoking a sense of historical exploration and scientific observation in a tropical setting.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
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Duration: 5s
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Clip ID: 120973947

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People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Cuba requests needing tropical vegetation, field-study atmosphere, and brief home-movie cutaways of rustic thatched structures and plant handling.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, thatched roof, informal framing, and metadata-supported 1956 Cuba setting place the view in a mid-1950s tropical travel or research context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observer quality, with the camera lingering on huts and foliage before briefly catching a hand and foot near a spiky plant.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include thatched roofs, palm fronds, dense tropical shrubs, shaded posts, a spiky plant, a hand, trousers, and a dark shoe.
Film character: The footage shows handheld 8mm texture with soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, color shift, and contact-sheet frame edges that reinforce its physical-film origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or observational cutaway for tropical fieldwork, botany, travel, or mid-century Caribbean memory sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually situates plant observation around tropical vernacular structures and dense greenery without proving a named site, institution, or specific scientific activity.
Research note: People are partly visible without identifiable faces, and copyright, likeness, and possible property considerations should be reviewed separately before reuse.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1956 Cuba 8mm tropical plants, botanist field footage, thatched hut home movie, insect research habitat, and Caribbean vegetation cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Cuba 1956 material, then broader tropical botany, insects on plants, and mid-century travel-home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Cuba 8mm frame showing a thatched tropical structure behind palm fronds and foliage, with dark film-frame borders. — Thatched roof and tropical foliage seen through the handheld 8mm frame.

1956 Cuba 8mm view of a thatched roofed structure surrounded by palm fronds and dense tropical plants. — Rustic thatched structure set within thick tropical vegetation.

1956 Cuba 8mm frame of a shaded thatched structure behind dense foliage and a bright foreground plant leaf. — Shaded thatched structure viewed through layered tropical plants.

1956 Cuba 8mm frame showing a person's hand, trouser leg, and shoe near a spiky tropical plant. — A person stands beside a spiky plant, with only hand, leg, and shoe visible.

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