Cuba-1962: The View Across The Water As A Ship Passes By

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The View Across The Water As A Ship Passes By — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a serene coastal view from a distance, likely from a moving vessel. The footage shows a calm blue ocean stretching toward a distant shoreline with low-lying buildings and hills under a partly cloudy sky. A large naval ship enters the frame, moving across the water and leaving a wake, emphasizing the maritime setting. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, color fading, and visible grain, with slight camera shake suggesting handheld recording. This authentic archival clip evokes mid-century travel and naval activity.

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: 125012492

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: 1960s Cuba coastal home-movie footage suited to documentary inserts about maritime travel, harbor approaches, or distant shoreline views.
Period detail: The soft color 8mm frame, distant waterfront buildings, and naval-looking vessel may show early 1960s coastal activity in Cuba.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from across the water, with handheld framing observing the shoreline and passing ship rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue open water, a distant Cuban shoreline, low buildings, hills, clouds, a passing ship, wake trails, and dark film-gate edges.
Film character: The footage carries an 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, blue color shift, visible grain, dust marks, exposure variation, and slight handheld movement.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime cutaway, travel transition, establishing insert, or reflective memory beat before or after Cuban harbor material.
Historical context: The view records coastal infrastructure and vessel traffic from a distance, offering broad visual context without confirming a specific harbor or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are visible or noted, but ship identity, shoreline property, copyright status, and location claims should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 Cuba 8mm shoreline, Cuban coast ship passing, vintage home movie ocean view, and naval vessel across bay.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Cuba 1962 coastal views, then broader 1960s maritime travel or ship-at-sea footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Cuba 8mm frame showing blue water, a distant shoreline with low buildings, hills, and a cloudy sky. — A distant coastal settlement is seen across calm blue water.

1962 Cuba coastal view across open water, with low waterfront buildings, hills, clouds, and dark frame edges. — The camera holds on a distant waterfront and hills across the bay.

1962 Cuba 8mm view with a ship at lower left crossing blue water before a distant shoreline and hills. — A ship moves through the foreground while the shoreline remains distant.

1962 Cuba 8mm frame showing a large naval-looking ship crossing blue water with wake before a distant coast. — A large ship passes across the water, leaving a visible wake.

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