Cuba-1962: Mountains And Blue Water On A Sunny Day

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Mountains And Blue Water On A Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a serene coastal landscape in Cuba. The view, framed by the dark edges of a window or boat porthole, shows deep blue water stretching toward a distant shoreline. Rolling green and brown hills rise behind a low-lying coastal settlement, with a few scattered buildings visible. The sky is pale and overcast, casting a soft light over the scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: grainy texture, slight color fading, and subtle film scratches, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This clip offers authentic 1960s Cuban scenery for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
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Duration: 5s
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Clip ID: 125012447

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 1184 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: saratoga
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: cuba
Date: 1962 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Cuba Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1962 Cuba coastal scenery for documentary inserts, travel-history sequences, or atmospheric archive cutaways needing non-urban shoreline and mountain views.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft focus, and window- or boat-framed viewpoint support a 1960s home-movie travel context without identifying a specific town or landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational quality of a traveler filming from a moving vessel or window, holding on the distant shoreline rather than staging a scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include deep blue water, a low coastal strip, distant hills, pale sky, small light buildings, dark frame edges, and film gate borders.
Film character: The footage shows grain, mild color fading, soft focus, scratches, and slight exposure variation consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet establishing cutaway, transition, memory beat, or geographic texture between Cuba travel or 1960s archive scenes.
Historical context: The view documents a coastal Cuban landscape in 1962 through a visitor-shot lens, emphasizing water, hills, and settlement rather than public events.
Research note: No people, faces, brands, or readable signs are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property implications should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1962 Cuba coast 8mm, vintage Cuban shoreline, home movie blue water mountains, and 1960s travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Cuba views, then broader Caribbean coastline or vintage travel landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Cuba 8mm view across deep blue water toward a low coast and rolling hills, with dark vertical frame edges. — A distant Cuban shoreline and hills seen across blue water through dark frame edges.

1962 Cuba coastal view with blue water in the foreground, low buildings along shore, and hills beyond. — Small shoreline buildings sit below hills across the water.

1962 Cuba 8mm frame showing blue water, a low coastal settlement, and rounded hills under a pale sky. — A low coastal settlement appears across the water beneath rounded hills.

1962 Cuba home-movie frame looking over blue water to a low shoreline and hills, with visible 8mm borders. — The clip ends on a wide view of water, shoreline, and hills.

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