Washington DC USA-1975: A Man Stands Holding A Bucket On A Farm

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Year1975
Decade1970s
LocationWashington, District Of Columbia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Man Stands Holding A Bucket On A Farm — Clip Details

A man in a yellow shirt stands in a rural farm setting, holding a white bucket while smoking a cigarette. Pigs roam behind a wire fence in the background, with trees and open fields stretching into the distance. The footage, captured on vintage 8mm film, shows natural daylight and the characteristic grain and color saturation of 1975 home movie footage. The camera remains mostly static, offering a candid glimpse of everyday life on a small farm. The scene evokes a sense of nostalgia and rural Americana, with the man appearing relaxed and contemplative.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 121472912

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: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1975 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: Washington, District Of Columbia, 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: Suits a 1970s rural Americana documentary or editorial sequence needing a candid farm-life character moment; the 8mm source and mid-decade date support period accuracy and archival authenticity.
Period detail: The cream short-sleeve shirt, wooden post-and-wire livestock fence, and pale 8mm color palette are consistent with mid-1970s rural mid-Atlantic American home-movie footage.
Home-movie behavior: The man appears unposed and casually aware of the camera, caught in a natural pause near the pen — a spontaneous family-film moment documenting daily farm routine rather than staging it.
What appears in frame: Man in cream short-sleeve shirt, white plastic bucket on the ground, wooden fence post, wire livestock fencing, hogs behind the fence, open cultivated fields, distant treeline, and overcast pale sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan exhibits warm color saturation, visible grain structure, and slight edge softening characteristic of mid-1970s amateur film stock shot in diffuse natural outdoor daylight.
Edit role: Functions best as a character cutaway or still-life insert inside a documentary segment on 1970s American rural or agricultural life; too brief at 5 seconds for a standalone establishing shot.
Historical context: Small-scale hog keeping was a common feature of mid-Atlantic rural homesteads in the 1970s; this footage offers a candid first-person record of that domestic agricultural scale.
Research note: An identifiable adult male appears clearly in the usable frame; likeness rights are indeterminate from the footage alone and require assessment before commercial or editorial release.
Research search match: Likely matched by searches for '1970s farm life,' 'rural America home movie,' 'hog farm 8mm,' 'mid-Atlantic farming 1975,' or 'candid farm worker vintage footage.'
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same source reel or family collection; then with 1970s rural Virginia or Maryland farm footage; then with mid-century American agricultural daily-life material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Extreme close-up of a red garment with dotted trim, likely a transitional frame as the camera moved across a scene in this 1970s 8mm home movie. — Transitional close-up of red fabric with dotted trim; camera panning across scene.

Nearly black transitional frame with green tree canopy at the right edge, consistent with a camera pan across an outdoor setting in 8mm home movie footage. — Dark transitional frame; green tree foliage at right edge.

Out-of-focus frame of green vegetation or foliage very close to the lens, likely from camera movement during this 8mm home movie sequence. — Blurred green vegetation; camera in motion or subject passing close to lens.

A man in a cream short-sleeve shirt stands at a hog pen fence on a rural farm, circa 1975; a white bucket rests near his feet, hogs are visible behind the wire, and open fields with a distant treeline fill the background. — Man at hog pen fence holding or gesturing near his face, white bucket at feet, farm fields behind.

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