California USA-1939: Men Operating Threshing Machine In Wheat Field

$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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Men Operating Threshing Machine In Wheat Field — Clip Details

Vintage 1939 8mm home movie footage from California showing men operating a large threshing machine in a wheat field. Workers in period attire and hats operate the machinery, with close-ups of the mechanical components and wide shots of the agricultural operation. The grainy black-and-white film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with film grain, slight motion blur, and natural lighting. This authentic archival footage captures early 20th-century farming technology and rural labor during the harvest season.

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: 121487542

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: Supports archive requests for 1930s California agricultural labor, mechanized wheat harvest, or rural Depression-era work scenes in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: Men in brimmed hats and work clothes around an open threshing machine may show late-1930s farm technology and field labor practices supported by the 1939 clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the work from a nearby, practical vantage point, catching workers, machinery, and the surrounding field without staged presentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include men on and beside a threshing machine, exposed mechanical parts, long metal rails or chutes, a wheat field, open sky, and distant parked vehicles.
Film character: The 8mm black-and-white scan has soft contrast, visible grain, slight blur, and contact-sheet frame borders that give the clip a home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, cutaway, or transitional memory beat for mechanized harvest, rural labor, or California farming sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually places manual workers alongside a large field machine, suggesting a harvest operation where human labor and mechanized processing overlap.
Research note: People are visible and may require likeness review depending on use, while no logos, audible music, or clear private property are apparent from the supplied frames.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1939 California wheat harvest 8mm, men operating threshing machine, vintage farm labor footage, and rural home movie agriculture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1939 California rural footage, then with broader wheat harvest or early mechanized farming material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 California home-movie frame showing part of a threshing machine in a wheat field, with a worker partly visible near the right edge. — A partially obscured view of farm machinery and a worker during the harvest operation.

1939 California harvest scene with men in hats standing on and around a large threshing machine in an open wheat field. — Workers gather around the elevated platform and mechanical parts of the threshing machine.

Men operate or inspect a large threshing machine in a California field, with rails or chutes visible across the foreground. — Workers stand around the threshing machine as its platform and foreground rails fill the frame.

Wide 1939 California field view showing several distant parked vehicles near the harvest area, with open land and sky beyond. — A wide shot looks across the field toward parked vehicles near the work site.

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