Havana Cuba-1952: Bronze Lion Statue on Its Plinth Before an Arcaded Building

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationHavana, La Habana, Cuba
Duration3s
Collection1952 · Havana, La Habana, Cuba
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

landmark tourism
public sculpture
colonial architecture
pre-revolution Havana
Caribbean travel
mid-century cruise holiday

Shot type: medium
Camera: static · handheld
Setting: outdoor · City promenade in front of an arcaded multi-storey building
Time and weather: day · overcast or shaded daylight
Lighting: Soft daylight rendered with a strong blue colour cast
People: 2 · Two distant men in white shirts near the base of the plinth, faces not identifiable
Landmarks: Prado lions · Paseo del Prado
Objects: bronze lion statue · stone plinth · lamp post · yellow awnings · billboard · balconies · arcade columns
Readable signs: EL H
Colors: blue · navy · pale blue · mustard yellow
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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The bronze lion is held in profile before the arcaded building, a man in white at right.
The camera stays steady as the figure at the plinth base shifts position.
The framing drifts slightly, showing more of the stone plinth before the shot ends.

Bronze Lion Statue on Its Plinth Before an Arcaded Building — Clip Details

Havana, Cuba, circa 1952 home movie footage of one of the bronze lion statues on the Paseo del Prado. The lion stands in side profile on a stone plinth, head raised and facing left, in front of a pale multi-storey building with balconied windows and a columned ground-floor arcade hung with yellow lettered awnings. At right a billboard shows a partial 'EL H' sign, and two men in white shirts are near the base. The 8mm camera holds steady for under three seconds, and the film has a strong blue colour cast.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
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Duration: 3s
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Clip ID: 800001629

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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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1952 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: Havana, La Habana, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Serves requests for amateur colour footage of pre-revolution Havana circa 1952, such as a landmark insert for documentaries on Cuban tourism or the Paseo del Prado.
Period detail: The aged arcaded facade, painted billboard and white-shirted passers-by may show early-1950s Havana, while the section's Maine monument eagle places it before 1961.
Home-movie behavior: A cruise visitor stops to film a famous Prado lion squarely in profile, the way tourists framed a must-see sight rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: A bronze lion in profile on a stone plinth, a balconied multi-storey facade, a columned arcade with yellow awnings, a lamp post, a billboard reading 'EL H' and two small figures in white.
Film character: Soft-focus 8mm with fine grain and a heavy blue colour shift that renders the bronze almost black and the stonework a cool pale blue.
Edit role: Works as a short establishing shot or cutaway for Havana's Prado, or as a memory-beat insert in a travel montage.
Historical context: The shot records the Prado as a sightseeing stop for foreign cruise visitors, in the same reel section as Sloppy Joe's Bar and the USS Maine monument.
Research note: Film copyright rests with the archive; the two distant people are not identifiable, but the lion sculpture, billboard artwork and building facade may raise separate artwork or property questions for some uses.
Research search match: Havana Prado lions 8mm home movie, pre-revolution Cuba tourist footage circa 1952, old Havana street landmark film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's Havana harbour front and pagoda-roofed villa clips, then with other circa-1952 Havana landmark footage, then with mid-century cruise sightseeing material.

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Bronze Prado lion before an arcaded facade on Havana's Paseo del Prado, circa 1952, with a man in white near the plinth — A Prado lion in Havana, filmed by a visitor circa 1952, with a passer-by for scale.
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Havana's Paseo del Prado circa 1952: lion sculpture against a pale arcade with lettered awnings on 8mm film — Arcade columns and lettered awnings behind the bronze lion on the Prado, Havana, circa 1952.
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Blue-cast 8mm frame of a Prado lion in Havana circa 1952, balconied windows of a multi-storey building above — The strong blue cast of the scanned 8mm film turns the bronze nearly black, Havana circa 1952.
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Stone plinth and Prado lion in Havana circa 1952, framing shifted to show the base and two passers-by — The final moment of the shot shows more of the plinth and two men in white, Paseo del Prado, circa 1952.
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