Cuba-1962: Small Plane Flying Low over Coastal Waters

Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationCuba
Duration5s

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Small Plane Flying Low over Coastal Waters — Clip Details

CUBA-1962: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a small plane flying low over the blue sea on a cloudy day. The footage, shot from a distance, shows the aircraft passing across the frame above a coastal landscape with distant hills and a red structure on the shore. The image has the characteristic grain, color fading, and edge damage of 1960s Super 8 film. The scene is serene, with the vast ocean stretching to the horizon under a partly cloudy sky.

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: 125012802

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: Supports archival requests for early 1960s Cuba travel or coastal aviation footage for documentary inserts, educational programs, and period-setting edits.
Period detail: The soft color, 8mm frame edges, and distant coastal view may show a 1962 home-movie record of Cuban shoreline and small-aircraft activity.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, observing the sea and distant shoreline from a fixed or gently handheld vantage rather than staging the aircraft.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue open water, a distant coast, low hills, cloud bands, a small aircraft, a red shoreline object, film gate edges, and dust marks.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm archival texture through soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, gate borders, and intermittent surface specks.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief coastal cutaway, travel transition, aviation insert, or quiet memory beat within a Cuba or 1960s sequence.
Historical context: The scene places aircraft movement against a broad seascape and distant Cuban coast without showing identifiable people, signage, or named landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any aircraft or shoreline details should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 Cuba 8mm coastal footage, vintage plane over sea, home movie ocean horizon, and 1960s travel aviation cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Cuba 1962 coastal footage, then broader 1960s travel, ocean, and aviation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Cuba 8mm frame showing blue water, distant hills, cloud cover, and a small aircraft near the shoreline. — A small aircraft appears near a distant Cuban shoreline across blue water.

1962 Cuba 8mm frame with open water, distant coastline, low hills, cloud bands, and a small red shoreline detail. — The coastal horizon sits beyond open water beneath a band of clouds.

1962 Cuba 8mm frame showing blue water, a hazy coastal horizon, low clouds, and visible film-frame borders. — A hazy shoreline stretches across the horizon beyond the blue sea.

1962 Cuba 8mm frame of open water, distant shore, low hills, cloudy sky, and dark gate borders from the film scan. — Open water fills the foreground with the distant coast under clouds.

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