Port-Au-Prince Haiti-1952: Woman Walking a Sunny Road With a White Bundle Balanced on Her Head

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationPort-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
Duration2s
Price$149 USD
Collection1952 · Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

head carrying
everyday labour
walking
Caribbean daily life
tourist gaze
rural roadside
mid-century travel

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · tracking
Setting: outdoor · Paved roadside on the edge of a settlement with a rocky embankment, dry grass, palms and a low building
Time and weather: midday · dry season · Clear and sunny
Lighting: Harsh direct sunlight with strong contrast and bleached highlights
People: 3 · A woman in a dark long-sleeved dress seen from behind carrying a bundle on her head, a man in white clothes and a straw hat walking ahead, and a small figure standing by the parked car.
Vehicles: rounded green late-1940s style car, parked
Objects: white cloth bundle · woven straw bag · straw hat · paved road · low building with pale roof
Colors: dark brown · white · pale violet blue · straw yellow · olive green
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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A woman with a white bundle on her head walks away along the road as a man in white walks ahead.
The handheld camera keeps pace behind her while a rounded green car stands parked at the left.
She fills the foreground as the man continues along the dusty verge past dry grass and palms.

Port-Au-Prince Haiti-1952: Woman Walking a Sunny Road... — Clip Details

Near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, circa 1952 home movie footage shows a woman in a dark long-sleeved dress walking away from the camera along a curving paved road. She balances a large white cloth bundle on her head and carries a woven straw bag in her right hand. Ahead, a man in white clothes and a straw hat walks the dusty verge past dry grass, palms and a low building where a rounded green car is parked. One handheld shot in bright sun follows her from behind.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 2s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001630

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Minors are visible. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip, and a sensitive-use review is recommended.

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

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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: Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti 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: Helps a request for mid-century Haitian or Caribbean everyday life on foot, circa 1952, as a short cutaway for documentary, education or museum work.
Period detail: A rounded late-1940s style green car parked by a low building may show the era, along with the woman's long dark dress and the man's white clothes and straw hat.
Home-movie behavior: A cruise visitor walks behind a local woman and films her unposed, recording head-carrying the way a tourist noticed it rather than as a staged scene.
What appears in frame: A woman seen from behind with a large white bundle on her head, a woven straw bag in her hand, a man in white with a straw hat, a parked green car, a low roofed building and palms above dry grass.
Film character: Projected 8mm colour with warm earth tones, a violet-leaning sky, fine grain, a stray hair and dust specks, and a gently swaying handheld frame in hard sun.
Edit role: Works as a brief cutaway or memory beat inside a street-life sequence, or as a transition between Haitian waterfront and town scenes.
Historical context: Carrying goods balanced on the head appears repeatedly in this Haiti section of the reel, showing how people moved loads on foot as seen by a visiting tourist.
Research note: The film's copyright rests with the home-movie holder; the people are filmed from behind with no clear faces, a small background figure may be a child, and the parked car and building are private property, so likeness and property use should be weighed separately.
Research search match: Researchers would find it with searches like 8mm Haiti home movie 1950s, woman carrying bundle on head, Port-au-Prince street life archival footage, or Caribbean cruise tourist film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with 'Women carrying baskets on their heads', 'Donkey riders on a town street' and 'National Palace with flag' from the same reel, then other Port-au-Prince footage of the period, then head-carrying scenes from elsewhere in the Caribbean.

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Near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, circa 1952: woman with a white head bundle and straw bag walks a paved road past a parked late-1940s style car — A woman carries a white bundle on her head along a sunny road as a man in a straw hat walks ahead and a rounded green car stands parked.
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Circa 1952 8mm film near Port-au-Prince, Haiti: a woman balances a cloth bundle on her head while a man in white walks the road edge ahead — Seen from behind, the woman keeps a steady pace with her load as the man ahead follows the dusty verge.
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Haiti, circa 1952: home movie view of a woman carrying a load on her head and a straw bag, walking toward a man in white on a tropical road — The handheld camera keeps pace behind the woman as she walks toward the man in white under bright tropical sun.
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Circa 1952 Haiti, near Port-au-Prince: a woman walking away with a white bundle on her head fills the frame against palms and dry grass — Near the end of the shot the woman and her white bundle fill the foreground, with the man in white still visible ahead.
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