Cuba-1962: Stone Fountain in City Square

Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationCuba
Duration5s

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Stone Fountain in City Square — Clip Details

CUBA-1962: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a grand stone fountain in a sun-drenched city square, its intricate sculptures partially obscured by shadows. A white sedan passes behind the fountain, while pedestrians in period attire stroll and sit nearby. The warm, yellow-toned film shows classic mid-century architecture with shuttered windows, all rendered in the grainy, nostalgic quality of Super 8 footage. The camera pans slightly, revealing the fountain's full scale and the lively urban atmosphere of 1960s Cuba.

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: 125013660

Rights & Clearance

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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

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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 Cuba editorial sequences needing home-movie views of a public fountain, city architecture, and everyday pedestrian movement.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century urban details such as shuttered windows, a white sedan, dark formal clothing, stone paving, and warm-toned building facades.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on the sculptural fountain while passersby move through the square without staged interaction.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large sculptural fountain, stone figures, yellow building facades, shuttered windows, pedestrians, a white car, paved square, and deep shadow.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, soft focus, high-contrast shadows, warm color shift, and slight handheld movement consistent with travel home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing cutaway, travel-memory insert, or transition between urban street scenes and public landmark details.
Historical context: The scene documents public-square activity and architectural surroundings in Cuba in 1962, with people passing and sitting near a monumental fountain.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no obvious logos appear, and copyright clearance is separate from location or likeness concerns.
Research search match: Search matches include 1962 Cuba 8mm fountain square, vintage home movie city plaza, Cuban public fountain pedestrians, and 1960s urban travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Cuba 1962 city views, then related fountain, plaza, pedestrian, and mid-century architecture clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Cuba home-movie frame showing a shadowed stone fountain before yellow urban buildings, with a white sedan partly visible behind it. — A sculptural fountain fills the foreground while sunlit buildings and a passing white car sit behind it.

1962 Cuba frame with the camera close to the fountain's carved stone forms, backed by warm city facades and windows. — The camera studies the fountain's dense stone sculpture against sunlit urban facades.

1962 Cuba home-movie view of a large public fountain beside buildings, with pedestrians crossing or pausing in the square. — Pedestrians move through the paved square as the fountain and surrounding buildings remain in view.

1962 Cuba frame showing the fountain from the side, with people near the stone base and yellow city buildings beyond. — A side angle shows the fountain's scale beside pedestrians and surrounding urban architecture.

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