California USA-1937: Farm Life: Harvesting And Having Fun In The Field

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Year1937
Decade1930s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1937 California

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Farm Life: Harvesting And Having Fun In The Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from California USA in 1937, showing a man in a light-colored shirt and hat working in a vast wheat field. The grainy black-and-white film captures him bending over, harvesting or inspecting crops under a bright sky. The scene transitions to a rural farmyard with a small wooden shed and a chicken walking in the foreground, evoking a nostalgic, pastoral lifestyle. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, edge damage, and natural camera movement, preserving a candid moment of early 20th-century farm life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121485672

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
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: 1937 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: California, 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports requests for 1930s California farm-life footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences about rural labor and home-movie views of agriculture.
Period detail: The light work clothing, brimmed hat, simple wooden outbuilding, open fields, and black-and-white 8mm look are visible clues consistent with the supplied 1937 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged family-film feel, with the camera observing a man bending in a grain field before shifting to a farmyard chicken near a small shed.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a hat, tall field grain, open horizon, bright sky, a small wooden shed, stacked boards or crates, dirt yard, and a chicken.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm archival texture through soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, gate edges, minor speckling, and handheld framing.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural-life insert, farm-labor cutaway, transition from field to yard, or brief memory beat within a 1930s agriculture sequence.
Historical context: The visuals show everyday rural work and farmyard surroundings rather than a staged event, offering social context for domestic agricultural life in the 1930s.
Research note: People and possible private farm structures are visible, so copyright, likeness, and property considerations should be reviewed separately before publication.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1930s California farm home movie, 8mm wheat field harvest, rural shed and chicken footage, and black-and-white agricultural family film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then 1937 California rural material, then broader 1930s farm work, harvest, livestock, or home-movie themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 California home-movie frame showing a man in light clothing and a hat bending among tall grain in an open field. — A man bends over in a wide grain field, possibly harvesting or inspecting crops.

1937 California farm footage shows a man leaning in a grain field, with a small indistinct form low in the crop beside him. — The man continues working or looking down in the grain field.

1937 California home-movie frame showing a chicken in the foreground of a rural yard with a small wooden shed behind it. — A chicken walks through the farmyard in front of a small wooden outbuilding.

1937 California rural yard scene with a chicken standing before a small wooden shed and open fields in the background. — The farmyard view holds on the chicken and simple wooden shed.

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