Port-Au-Prince Haiti-1952: Straw-Hatted Riders on Donkeys with a Boy Walking Alongside

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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

street life
animal transport
Caribbean town
travel home movie
childhood
mid-century Haiti

Shot type: medium
Camera: static · handheld
Setting: outdoor · Town street lined with two-storey shop fronts, arched doorways, wooden shutters and a tin awning on posts
Time and weather: day · sunny
Lighting: Bright direct sunlight with deep shade under the awning
People: 5 · Two riders in wide straw hats on donkey-type animals, a boy in a light shirt walking between them, a small child near a doorway and a figure in a hat at the far right
Animals: donkey · mule or donkey
Objects: straw hats · saddles · tin awning · hanging cloth · wooden shutters · arched doorway · dark post
Colors: cream · brick red · brown · pale lavender-white
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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A rider in a wide straw hat enters from the right on a small donkey.
A boy appears walking beside the first rider.
A second straw-hatted rider follows on a larger brown mount.
Both riders and the boy cross the middle of the frame in front of the shop fronts.

Port-Au-Prince Haiti-1952: Straw-Hatted Riders on... — Clip Details

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, circa 1952 home movie footage. A rider in a wide straw hat comes along a sunlit town street on a small donkey, moving from right to left past shop fronts with arched doorways, shuttered wooden doors and a tin awning hung with pale cloth. A boy walks beside the animal, and a second straw-hatted rider follows on a larger brown mount while a small child stands in a doorway behind. The single static shot is framed from the shade behind a dark post, in warm, soft 8mm colour.

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: 800001632

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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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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: Answers requests for 1950s-era Haitian or Caribbean street life, especially everyday donkey transport, for history documentaries and education programmes.
Period detail: The riders' wide straw hats, animal transport on a paved street and the arcaded shop fronts with tin awnings may show Port-au-Prince street life of the early 1950s.
Home-movie behavior: A visiting passenger films ordinary passers-by from the shade, catching riders and a boy going about their day without posing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Two riders in wide straw hats, a small donkey and a larger brown mount, a boy walking between them, a child by an arched doorway, a tin awning hung with pale cloth, and a dark post at the right edge.
Film character: Warm, slightly faded 8mm colour with soft focus, visible grain and sun-bleached highlights on the pavement gives the shot an authentic projected-film texture.
Edit role: Works as a short street-life cutaway or memory beat within a Haiti sequence, bridging landmark views and people-on-foot shots.
Historical context: The scene shows animals carrying riders through a city street alongside two-storey commercial buildings, a visual record of transport and street use in Port-au-Prince at the time.
Research note: Copyright in the film is separate from likeness: the riders and a minor appear, though faces are small and soft, and private shop fronts are visible, so likeness and property review is advised before commercial use.
Research search match: Port-au-Prince street 1950s, donkey riders Haiti, 8mm Caribbean travel home movie, Haitian street life archival footage, straw hats donkeys vintage film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's Women Carrying Baskets on Their Heads, Woman Carrying a Bundle on Her Head and National Palace with Flag, then other Port-au-Prince footage of the early 1950s, then donkey-transport scenes elsewhere.

Still Frames From This Clip

Straw-hatted rider on a donkey enters a Port-au-Prince street lined with shuttered shop fronts, Haiti, circa 1952 — A rider in a wide straw hat comes into view on a donkey, Port-au-Prince, circa 1952.
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Boy walks beside a donkey rider on a Port-au-Prince street as a second mount appears, Haiti, circa 1952 — A boy walks alongside the rider as a second mount enters from the right.
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Two straw-hatted riders and a walking boy pass shuttered shop fronts on a Port-au-Prince street, circa 1952 — Two riders in straw hats pass with a boy walking between them, Port-au-Prince, circa 1952.
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Riders in straw hats and a boy cross a sunlit Port-au-Prince street past arcaded shops, Haiti, circa 1952 — The riders and the boy cross in front of the shop fronts as another figure in a hat looks on.
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