Havana Cuba-1952: Camera Pans Past a Tiered-Roof Villa as a Black Sedan Drives By

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationHavana, La Habana, Cuba
Duration5s
Collection1952 · Havana, La Habana, Cuba
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

mid-century Havana
residential architecture
pre-revolution Cuba
street life
tourist travel film
political campaign posters
vintage automobiles

Shot type: wide
Camera: pan · handheld
Setting: outdoor · Residential city street lined with walled villas, hedges and utility poles
Time and weather: day · partly cloudy
Lighting: soft overcast daylight
People: 2 · One or two tiny distant pedestrians near the garden walls, too small to identify; the sedan's occupants are not visible.
Vehicles: black 1940s sedan
Objects: utility poles · overhead wires · portrait posters · red tile roofs · corner tower · balcony · low white garden wall · blue gate · hedges · bougainvillea · flat-roofed house
Colors: terracotta red · white · dark green · lavender sky · black
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

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A portrait poster on a utility pole frames a red-roofed house behind hedges and a white wall.
The pan centres the white corner tower with its tiered pagoda-like roof.
A rounded black 1940s sedan drives across the foreground.
The shot ends on a white flat-roofed house beside a utility pole.

Camera Pans Past a Tiered-Roof Villa as a Black Sedan... — Clip Details

Havana, Cuba, circa 1952 home movie footage. The shot opens on a utility pole carrying a portrait poster in front of a two-storey house with a red tile roof, hedges and flowering bougainvillea behind a low white wall. A slow pan to the right centres a white corner tower with its own tiered, pagoda-like roof while a rounded black 1940s sedan crosses the foreground. The pan ends on a plain white flat-roofed neighbour, filmed handheld from across the street on 8mm colour film.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorHandheld
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
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Duration: 5s
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Clip ID: 800001634

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People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
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: 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 circa 1952 Havana residential streets, giving documentaries and travel histories a real visitor's view of a walled villa before 1961.
Period detail: A rounded black 1940s sedan, wooden utility poles with portrait posters that may be election material, and tiled villas behind garden walls point to mid-century Havana.
Home-movie behavior: A cruise visitor, likely filming from a moving tour vehicle or the roadside, swings the camera along a house that caught their eye rather than any official landmark.
What appears in frame: A pole carrying a portrait poster, a red-roofed house behind hedges and bougainvillea, a white tower with a tiered roof, a passing black sedan, and a white flat-roofed neighbour under overhead wires.
Film character: Soft-focus handheld 8mm colour with lavender-shifted skies, warm terracotta reds, visible grain and scattered dust and a hair that mark it as projected original film.
Edit role: Works as an establishing shot or neighbourhood cutaway for Havana sequences, with the passing car offering a natural motion cue for a transition.
Historical context: The street appears in the reel's Havana section alongside the Capitolio and Morro Castle, and the posters suggest public campaigning was visible on ordinary residential streets.
Research note: Film copyright and the posters' printed portrait are separate questions; the houses are private property, and distant pedestrians are unidentifiable, so likeness risk is low but not zero.
Research search match: Fits searches such as 1950s Havana villa footage, pre-revolution Cuba street 8mm home movie, Havana tile roof house, and vintage Cuban street with 1940s car.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's Prado lion, Havana harbour front and family garden clips, then with other Havana footage from about 1952, then with mid-century Caribbean architecture material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Portrait poster on a utility pole before a red-tiled villa with bougainvillea and a white garden wall, Havana, Cuba, circa 1952 — A poster bearing a man's portrait hangs on a pole outside a walled house with a red tile roof, Havana, circa 1952.
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Pagoda-style corner tower with tiered red tile roof on a hedged Havana villa, Cuba, circa 1952 — The pan centres on the house's white tower, capped by a tiered, pagoda-like tile roof, Havana, circa 1952.
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Black 1940s sedan driving past a tiered-roof villa on a residential street in Havana, Cuba, circa 1952 — A rounded black 1940s sedan passes the villa as the camera continues its pan, Havana, circa 1952.
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Flat-roofed white house next to the tiered-roof villa on a quiet Havana street, Cuba, circa 1952 — The pan comes to rest on a plain white flat-roofed neighbour behind hedges and a low wall, Havana, circa 1952.
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