California USA-1939: Farmer Operating Tractor and Harvesting Equipment

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

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

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Farmer Operating Tractor and Harvesting Equipment — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from California USA in 1939, showing a wide, flat agricultural field under an overcast sky. A farmer in period clothing operates old farm equipment, including a tractor and a large harvesting machine, moving across the barren landscape. The grainy, monochrome image with visible film scratches and edge borders captures authentic mid-20th century rural life. The scene conveys a sense of quiet industry and historical Americana, with a distant figure and machinery working in the open field.

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: 121487496

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1939 8mm home-movie clip can support documentary or museum sequences needing rural Depression-era agricultural labor imagery from California with distant field work and small farm machinery.
Period detail: The wide open field, period-dressed worker, sparse machinery, monochrome 8mm texture, and metadata-supported 1939 date may show late-1930s farm practice without enough visible detail to identify equipment models.
Home-movie behavior: The footage appears casually observed from a distance, preserving the unstaged rhythm of a person moving through or working near an agricultural field rather than a posed farm scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a flat field, overcast sky, a distant person, low farm equipment, a fence or rail line, bare vegetation, and soft horizon lines.
Film character: The clip has a muted monochrome 8mm home-movie look with heavy grain, soft focus, gate edges, exposure fluctuation, scratches, and a contact-sheet scan feel that add archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, rural labor insert, transition into farm life, or quiet memory beat within a 1930s agriculture sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually situates farm work in a broad, sparsely developed landscape, but the frames do not support claims about crop type, ownership, labor status, or specific regional farming systems beyond the supplied California and 1939 metadata.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be appropriate, while no logos, audible music, or clearly identifiable private property are visible in the supplied frames; copyright clearance remains separate from likeness and property review.
Research search match: Relevant search phrases include 1939 California farm field 8mm footage, 1930s agricultural labor home movie, distant farmer with equipment, and vintage rural field work cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other California 1939 rural scenes, and then with broader 1930s farming, field work, machinery, or rural Americana material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 California 8mm frame showing a distant person in a wide, flat field beneath an overcast sky, with soft focus and visible film grain. — Distant figure in a broad farm field.

1939 California 8mm frame with low farm equipment or machinery near sparse vegetation in a broad agricultural landscape, seen through soft, grainy exposure. — Farm equipment near sparse field growth.

1939 California 8mm frame showing a small human figure near a fence or rail line with low farm equipment and sparse brush in the foreground field. — Figure and equipment near a field edge.

1939 California 8mm frame showing a person walking or standing near a fence or rail line, with low farm equipment, bare vegetation, and an open field beyond. — Person beside field-edge equipment.

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