Cuba-1962: Ornate Fountain in Public Square in Cuba

Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationCuba
Duration5s

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Ornate Fountain in Public Square in Cuba — Clip Details

CUBA-1962: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a sun-drenched public square featuring a large ornate fountain at its center, surrounded by classical columns and historic buildings. The grainy, slightly faded color film shows a few pedestrians strolling through the plaza, with the fountain's water spraying in the background. The footage has a nostalgic, archival quality with visible film scratches and natural 1960s color tones, offering a glimpse of everyday life in a Cuban city square during the early 1960s.

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: 125013736

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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: 1962 Cuba home-movie footage suited to documentary or educational requests for public-square architecture, fountain views, and brief urban establishing material.
Period detail: The 8mm color image may show early 1960s urban travel footage, with classical columns, older masonry buildings, sparse pedestrians, and period film color supporting the dated metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reads as a visitor-shot view, holding on the fountain and surrounding buildings rather than staging action or following identifiable people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large spraying fountain, columned facade, paved square, historic buildings, distant pedestrians, curb edges, and dark film gate borders.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, faded color, vertical scratches, and slight handheld framing that mark it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel-memory cutaway, architectural transition, or quiet visual beat between Cuba-related sequences.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for a public urban space in Cuba, emphasizing built environment and everyday plaza movement without documenting a named event.
Research note: People appear only as small distant figures, but likeness, location, copyright, and any property considerations should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1962 Cuba 8mm public square, Cuban fountain home movie, vintage plaza architecture, and early 1960s travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Cuba 1962 exteriors, then broader 1960s public-square, fountain, and travel home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Cuba 8mm frame showing a spraying fountain, broad plaza, columned facade, and distant pedestrians. — A fountain anchors the square in front of a classical columned building.

1962 Cuba 8mm frame with the fountain closer in view, backed by public buildings, columns, and dark tree shapes. — Water sprays from the plaza fountain with buildings and columns behind it.

Faded 1962 Cuba 8mm frame showing the fountain and plaza buildings through soft exposure and visible film wear. — The fountain and square appear through a soft, faded exposure.

1962 Cuba 8mm wide frame of the public square, with the fountain at left and a columned building across the plaza. — A wide plaza view places the fountain beside the columned building and road edge.

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