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Cuba-1951: A Man Plucks Ripe Fruit From A Tree In The Orchard

  • Year1951
  • Decade1950s
  • LocationCuba
  • Duration6s
  • Collection1951 Cuba

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A Man Plucks Ripe Fruit From A Tree In The Orchard — Clip Details

A man in a light-colored suit and fedora reaches into a lush citrus orchard, plucking ripe fruit from a tree. Shot on 8mm film in 1951, this vintage home movie captures a quiet moment of harvest in Cuba. The man wears a purple plaid shirt under his jacket, and the vibrant green foliage contrasts with the yellow fruit. The footage shows slight motion blur and natural film grain, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. The sequence moves from a close-up of the man’s action to a wider view of the tree canopy against a bright sky.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution
4K restored master (MP4)
License
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Delivery
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Duration
6s
Payment
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Clip ID
127707980

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 record not linked for this clip
Date
1951 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location
Cuba Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route
Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

  • orchard
  • trees
  • fruit
  • forest
  • ripe
  • man
  • plugs
  • tree
  • nature
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  • 1951
  • 1951 Cuba orchard footage
  • vintage 8mm film
  • man picking fruit
  • citrus harvest
  • Super 8 home movie
  • 1950s home movie
  • tropical fruit trees
  • vintage agricultural footage
  • retro Cuban life
  • 8mm film grain
  • classic home movie
  • fruit picking
  • vintage 1950s footage
  • archival 8mm
  • nostalgic home movie
  • old film footage
  • vintage documentary
  • vintage fruit harvest

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1950s Cuba documentary or educational edits needing brief home-movie orchard, fruit harvest, or rural travel cutaway material.
Period detail
The man's fedora, light suit jacket, plaid shirt, and the 8mm color home-movie look support an early-1950s travel or family-film context.
Home-movie behavior
The scene has an unstaged visitor-film feel as the man reaches into the citrus tree and briefly handles fruit for the camera.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a suited man, fedora, plaid shirt, dense citrus leaves, yellow fruit, tree canopy, bright sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character
The clip shows soft focus, handheld framing, color shifts, visible grain, and contact-frame edges typical of small-gauge home-movie scanning.
Edit role
An editor could use it as a short insert, agricultural cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition from a person to a wider orchard view.
Historical context
The footage visually places a dressed adult visitor or resident among fruit trees in Cuba, without establishing a specific town, farm, or event.
Research note
A person is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright status should be assessed separately from depicted rights.
Research search match
Matches searches for 1951 Cuba 8mm home movie orchard, man picking citrus fruit, vintage tropical grove, and midcentury travel footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent reel scenes, then other Cuba 1951 material, then broader orchard, fruit harvest, or tropical vegetation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1951 Cuba home-movie footage, a man in a light jacket and fedora reaches into a citrus tree with yellow fruit.
A dressed man reaches into the citrus branches at the start of the clip.
The man appears partly obscured under dense citrus foliage in Cuba, with yellow fruit visible above him.
The camera catches the man beneath the fruiting canopy.
A wider 1951 Cuba orchard view shows dense green citrus trees with yellow fruit against bright sky.
The sequence widens to the surrounding orchard canopy.
The final frame holds on a fruiting citrus tree canopy in Cuba, with yellow fruit visible among dense leaves.
A fruit-laden tree fills the closing view.

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