Montana USA-1939: Farming Harvesting The Crop In Rural Area

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationMontana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Montana

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Farming Harvesting The Crop In Rural Area — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Montana USA in 1939, capturing a rural farming landscape. The clip opens on a desolate scene with bare trees and a weathered farmhouse under a pale blue sky, transitioning to a view of a larger farmhouse surrounded by tall poplars. The sequence concludes with two farmers harvesting crops in a field, one using a pitchfork to move hay. The film exhibits characteristic 8mm grain, color fading, and scratches, conveying a nostalgic, historic atmosphere of early 20th-century American agriculture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121488689

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: 1939 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: Montana, 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: 1930s Montana 8mm home-movie footage for documentary or museum edits needing rural farm landscape and harvest activity.
Period detail: Visible clues include open fields, bare tree rows, farmhouse buildings, hay or crop handling, and color 8mm imagery consistent with the supplied 1939 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an informal home-movie viewpoint, observing farm buildings and field work from a distance without staged presentation.
What appears in frame: The clip shows bare trees, rural farmhouses, open Montana landscape, harvested crop or hay, two workers, a pitchfork, and faded blue sky.
Film character: The scan carries soft 8mm focus, visible grain, gate edges, scratches, color fading, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural agriculture insert, a transition from homestead to labor, or a memory beat in a 1930s farming sequence.
Historical context: The visible scenes place domestic farm buildings and manual crop handling within a rural American setting, without proving crop type or ownership.
Research note: People and farm property are visible, so copyright, likeness, and property context should be reviewed separately before sensitive or commercial use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Montana farm footage, rural 8mm harvest home movie, farmhouse with poplars, and vintage agriculture field work.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1939 Montana rural footage, then broader 1930s farm, harvest, and home-movie agriculture scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Montana home-movie frame showing bare trees and open rural ground under a pale sky. — Bare trees line a rural farm landscape in soft, faded 8mm color.

Rural Montana farmhouse appears behind tall trees in a faded 1939 8mm home-movie frame. — A farmhouse sits among tall bare trees in the rural landscape.

1939 Montana farm buildings and tree rows appear across a soft, scratched 8mm frame. — Farm buildings and tree rows are seen across an open rural yard.

Two workers harvest or move crop material in a Montana field, with one figure raising a pitchfork. — Farm workers handle hay or crop material in an open field.

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