California USA-1939: A Man Drives A Tractor As Other People Stand On The Cutting

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

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A Man Drives A Tractor As Other People Stand On The Cutting — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from California, USA, in 1939, showing a farmer operating a tractor while other men stand on a large agricultural cutter. The grainy black-and-white film captures a rural farming scene with workers in period attire, including hats, as they prepare for or perform field work. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics with visible grain, soft focus, and natural lighting, offering authentic archival material for historical or nostalgic projects.

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: 121487528

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 California agricultural labor, mechanized farm work, or rural home-movie inserts in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The hats, open tractor position, large cutter, and black-and-white 8mm look support a late-1930s rural farming scene.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an observational home-movie feel, watching workers and machinery from a nearby field position without staged performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tractor, seated driver, men standing on a cutter, long cutting bars, field ground, dust or haze, hats, and film frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, heavy grain, uneven exposure, dust specks, and gate edges give the clip a physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, rural labor insert, transition, or memory beat for prewar California farm life.
Historical context: The scene visually places people and machinery together in field work, suggesting a period moment of farm mechanization without identifying the crop or farm.
Research note: People are visible and likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property questions.
Research search match: Searches such as 1930s California farm tractor, 8mm agricultural cutter footage, vintage rural labor home movie, or prewar field machinery may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other 1939 California scenes, then broader 1930s farm machinery or rural labor material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 California home-movie footage, a tractor driver appears near several men standing on a large field cutter. — Tractor and cutter with workers visible in a dusty field scene.

A long cutter or harvesting attachment extends across the frame in the California field scene. — Long cutter structure seen across the field.

The 8mm frame shows the side of a long agricultural cutter or attachment in the 1939 California farm scene. — Side view of the cutter or harvesting attachment.

A hat-wearing tractor driver is partly visible through dust and soft focus in this 1939 California farm footage. — Tractor driver partly obscured by dust and soft focus.

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