Ohio USA-1966: Man Driving Yellow Caterpillar 310 Bulldozer in Forest

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Year1966
Decade1960s
LocationOhio, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1966 Ohio

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Man Driving Yellow Caterpillar 310 Bulldozer in Forest — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Ohio USA in 1966 shows a man operating a yellow Caterpillar 310 bulldozer in a wooded area. The operator, wearing a blue shirt and red cap, maneuvers the tracked vehicle through a forested landscape with autumn foliage. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: warm color grading, visible grain, and slight vignetting. The sequence captures the machine in motion, highlighting mid-century construction equipment and rural work life. This authentic archival clip offers nostalgic Americana for documentaries, historical projects, or retro-themed content.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120945651

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only 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.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1966 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: Ohio, United States 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 1960s Ohio 8mm clip helps answer requests for rural work activity, construction machinery, and mid-century home-movie views of land clearing or outdoor labor.
Period detail: The visible yellow tracked Caterpillar 310 machine, work clothing, red cap, and wooded autumn setting support the 1966 home-movie context without adding a more specific event or site.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of an unstaged family or local observer viewpoint, watching a man operate machinery at close range rather than presenting a formal industrial film setup.
What appears in frame: The frames show a man in a blue shirt and red cap, a yellow tracked Caterpillar bulldozer marked 310, dark rubber tracks, a red blade or attachment, trees, brush, and soft wooded hillsides.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm home-movie texture through visible grain, rounded frame edges, uneven exposure, warm fading, vignetting, and a handheld contact-sheet feel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, rural labor cutaway, machinery detail, or memory beat within a sequence about construction, land work, family property, or 1960s Americana.
Historical context: The clip visually situates heavy equipment in a wooded rural landscape, suggesting small-scale outdoor work or land maintenance without proving the purpose of the job.
Research note: A visible adult operator and identifiable Caterpillar branding require likeness and trademark review, while copyright, brand use, and any location or property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1960s Ohio 8mm bulldozer footage, Caterpillar 310 home movie, man driving tracked construction equipment, and rural forest land clearing film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Ohio or 1966 home-movie material, and then with broader themes of construction equipment, rural work, autumn woods, and mid-century American labor.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1966 Ohio home-movie footage, a man in a blue shirt operates a yellow Caterpillar 310 tracked bulldozer in a wooded area. — Operator on yellow Caterpillar 310 in woods.

The yellow Caterpillar 310 bulldozer is seen from the side with its operator partly visible against an Ohio wooded backdrop. — Tracked Caterpillar machine passes through the trees.

A man wearing a red cap and blue shirt drives the yellow tracked Caterpillar bulldozer through a wooded Ohio landscape in faded 8mm color. — Red-capped operator drives the tracked machine.

A heavily faded 8mm frame shows the yellow bulldozer and wooded hillside with low contrast and visible dust or film marks. — Faded end frame with bulldozer and trees.

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