Cuba-1962: Coastal City Along Blue Ocean

Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationCuba
Duration5s

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Coastal City Along Blue Ocean — Clip Details

CUBA-1962: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a sun-drenched coastal view with deep blue ocean water stretching toward a distant shoreline. The frame reveals a small city nestled along the coast, with low-rise buildings and a prominent elevated roadway or bridge cutting across the landscape. Rolling hills rise behind the settlement under a pale sky with scattered clouds. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—slight grain, soft focus, and a warm, faded color palette typical of 1960s home movies. The camera remains steady, offering a serene, nostalgic glimpse of Cuban coastal life.

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: 125012479

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: Useful for 1960s documentary or educational edits needing a brief Cuban coastal establishing view from amateur 8mm travel footage.
Period detail: The soft color, visible film grain, rounded frame edges and distant low-rise waterfront may show early 1960s home-movie documentation of a Cuban shoreline.
Home-movie behavior: The clip holds a visitor-shot perspective from across the water, observing the coast without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include deep blue ocean, pale sky, low shoreline buildings, a long elevated roadway or bridge, distant hills and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, blue-heavy color, slight exposure variation, dust specks and steady handheld framing that retain the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet establishing insert, transition, travel-memory beat or geographic cutaway within a Cuba or Caribbean sequence.
Historical context: The view records a coastal settlement and surrounding hills from offshore or across a bay, offering visual context without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: No people, logos or audible music are evident, but copyright, location identification and any visible property context should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 Cuba 8mm coastal footage, vintage home movie ocean city view, Cuban shoreline buildings and 1960s Caribbean travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Cuba 1962 coastal views, then broader 1960s ocean, shoreline and travel-home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Cuba 8mm frame showing deep blue water, a distant coastal settlement, low hills and pale clouds, bordered by dark film edges. — Distant Cuban shoreline seen across blue water with low buildings and hills beyond.

1962 Cuba coastal view across dark blue ocean, with low shoreline buildings, a possible elevated roadway and hazy hills in the background. — Coastal buildings and a raised waterfront structure appear beyond the blue water.

1962 Cuba 8mm frame with blue ocean foreground, distant low-rise waterfront, rolling hills and a cloudy sky in soft home-movie focus. — Soft coastal panorama with ocean foreground, distant buildings and hills.

1962 Cuba home-movie frame showing a distant coastal city line across blue water, with hills behind it and scattered clouds above. — Distant city shoreline sits between blue water and low hills under scattered clouds.

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