Cuba-1956: Three Adults Pose Beside an Elaborate Fruit Display

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What is in this clip

travel
visitor portraits
food display
tropical produce
leisure
decorative arrangement
everyday encounters

Shot type: mixed
Camera: handheld · pan · tilt · Approximately eye level, with slight changes in tilt during the pan
Setting: outdoor · Outdoor fruit display beside a paved road and clipped hedges
Time and weather: daytime · undetermined · Dry conditions
Lighting: Natural daylight with shaded areas beneath the display
People: 3 · Three adults: a mustached man in a light short-sleeved shirt and brown trousers, a woman in a pale blue dress, and a woman wearing dark sunglasses, a light blouse, necklace and blue skirt with a broad belt.
Vehicles: Partially visible rounded automobile passing on the background road
Objects: wooden fruit compartments · pineapples · small bananas · round yellow fruit · round red fruit · large pale fruit · elongated green fruit · decorative leafy sprigs · stacked wooden slats · sunglasses · necklace · clipped hedges
Colors: yellow · green · red · brown · cream · blue
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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Three adults pose beside the densely stocked fruit display.
The visitors smile and change their expressions toward the camera.
A rightward pan begins to move the visitors out of view.
Wooden compartments and hanging fruit fill the frame.
The view settles lower across pineapples and rows of round fruit.

Three Adults Pose Beside an Elaborate Fruit Display — Clip Details

Probably in Cuba, circa 1956 home movie footage shows three adults posing beside a densely arranged outdoor fruit display. A mustached man stands between two women, one wearing dark sunglasses, as they smile and gesture toward the camera. The camera pans right, leaving the visitors behind and moving across wooden compartments filled with round yellow and red fruit, pineapples and hanging bunches of small bananas.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
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Duration: 8s
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Clip ID: 800004483

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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: 1956 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This circa 1956 travel scene supports documentary requests for visitors posing beside a tropical fruit display, probably in Cuba.
Period detail: Short-sleeved clothing, a full blue skirt, a broad belt, dark sunglasses and a briefly visible rounded automobile fit the circa 1956 estimate.
Home-movie behavior: The visitors smile, gesture and react to the person filming before the camera turns its attention to the elaborate arrangement beside them.
What appears in frame: Three adults stand beside wooden fruit compartments containing pineapples, small bananas, round yellow and red produce, and leafy decorations, with clipped hedges behind them.
Film character: Soft detail, grain, scattered specks and uneven brightness accompany the handheld movement in this digital capture of projected color film.
Edit role: The opening provides a human travel beat, while the later pan supplies a produce cutaway or transition into excursion material.
Historical context: The scene records visitors posing beside an ornamental produce arrangement, with no visible transaction or readable sign establishing the business or attraction.
Research note: Recognizable adult faces and a stall of undetermined ownership are visible; film copyright licensing does not establish likeness or property permissions.
Research search match: Matches searches for circa 1956 small-gauge travel footage, visitors at a tropical fruit stand, and a probable Cuban excursion.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's pineapples growing in rows and women walking through a plaza, then probable Cuba circa 1956 travel scenes and other fruit-display footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Visitors pose beside a tropical fruit arrangement, probably in Cuba, circa 1956; a woman in dark sunglasses gestures beside a mustached man. — Three adults pose beside the elaborate outdoor arrangement, with one woman partly outside the frame.
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Probably in Cuba, circa 1956, a mustached visitor smiles beside a woman wearing sunglasses and a necklace, with a tall fruit display behind them. — Two visitors remain prominent beside the display as the framing shifts toward the produce.
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A tropical produce display, probably in Cuba, circa 1956, fills the frame with divided wooden shelves, pineapples, hanging bananas and leafy sprigs. — The pan leaves the visitors behind and centers the upper and middle sections of the arrangement.
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Probably in Cuba, circa 1956, a closer view shows pale round fruit, pineapples and hanging bananas arranged with greenery in a wooden outdoor display. — The closing view emphasizes lower compartments, large pale fruit and upright pineapples.
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