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About 13,000 farm and rural clips, peaking in the 1960s. The working family farm filmed itself the way it lived, at chore height and harvest pace.
Animals and machinery, planting and harvest, wide fields shot from the porch or the bed of a truck. California and New York lead, almost all on 8mm and 16mm.
60 archival clips matching “Farms & Rural Life”
Farm footage suits food, heartland, and environmental campaigns, rural documentaries, and period scenes that need a real working farm of the era. The field-and-sky wide and the animals-at-work shots are the common pulls.
The 1950s and 60s farms are hands-on, animal-powered as much as machine. The 1960s peak adds color and scale. The 1970s bring bigger equipment and the first signs of the modern operation.