California USA-1939: Man Stands In Field To Film Farm And Harvest Machine

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 California

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Man Stands In Field To Film Farm And Harvest Machine — Clip Details

Vintage 1939 8mm home movie footage from California showing a man standing in a vast agricultural field, filming farm machinery at work. The grainy black-and-white film captures early 20th-century farming technology, including a combine harvester operating in the distance. The scene unfolds under a flat, overcast sky, with the man positioned as a solitary figure against the expansive landscape. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—film grain, soft focus, and natural camera shake—evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic slice of rural American life offers a rare glimpse into agricultural practices of the era.

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: 121487470

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 1166 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: may
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1939 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s rural California archive requests needing home-movie views of agricultural fields, distant farm machinery, and a person filming in an open landscape.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s mechanized farm work, with a distant harvester-like machine, broad cultivated fields, and a spare rural horizon visible in soft black-and-white 8mm footage.
Home-movie behavior: The home-movie value comes from an observer filming another person and the farm activity at a distance, giving the scene an unstaged, field-level perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open fields, low horizon lines, distant farm machinery, a standing man, pale sky, soft focus, and the dark borders of the 8mm frame.
Film character: The footage has a grainy black-and-white 8mm look with soft focus, uneven exposure, frame-edge darkness, and slight handheld instability that reads as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural agriculture cutaway, a transition into 1930s farm work, or a memory beat showing early field filming and mechanized harvest activity.
Historical context: The visuals place a solitary person and machinery within a large agricultural landscape, suggesting the scale of field work without identifying a specific farm, crop, or event.
Research note: A person is visible but not clearly identifiable; copyright, likeness, and any location or property questions should be reviewed separately before final use.
Research search match: Searches such as 1939 California farm field 8mm, 1930s agriculture home movie, man filming harvest machine, and vintage rural California footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 California rural footage, and then broader 1930s agriculture or mechanized harvest material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 California 8mm frame showing distant farm machinery across an open agricultural field under a flat sky. — Distant machinery sits or moves across an open farm field.

Soft black-and-white 8mm view of distant farm equipment in a California agricultural landscape, with a low horizon beyond the field. — Farm equipment appears small against the wide field and horizon.

1939 8mm home-movie frame of a broad California field, with a small piece of machinery or equipment barely visible in the distance. — A tiny machine or field object is visible across the expansive landscape.

1939 California 8mm frame showing a man standing alone in an agricultural field, with a low horizon and distant hills behind him. — A man stands alone in the field, facing the camera or another filmer.

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