Wisconsin Dells Wisconsin USA-1954: Man Working In Field With Tractor

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Year1954
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1954 Wisconsin Dells

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Man Working In Field With Tractor — Clip Details

A man in a plaid shirt and straw hat works in a rural field, crouched beside a small tractor or farm implement. He appears to be planting or tending crops in freshly tilled soil, with a vast open landscape stretching behind him. The footage, captured on vintage 8mm film, shows natural colors and film grain, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-20th century American agriculture. The scene is viewed through a dark frame, suggesting it was shot from inside a vehicle or structure. This authentic home movie footage captures a quiet moment of farm labor in the 1950s.

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: 121493580

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 1212 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1953-1954
Reel-level location note: wisconsin
Date: 1954 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: Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, 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 1950s American agriculture requests needing a brief home-movie view of rural field labor and small farm equipment in Wisconsin.
Period detail: The straw hat, plaid work shirt, small tractor or implement, and open tilled field support a mid-century rural farm setting consistent with the 1954 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage observes an adult man crouched at work in the field, giving an unstaged glimpse of routine farm labor rather than a posed demonstration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a crouching man, straw hat, plaid shirt, tilled soil, small farm implement, pale container, open fields, and distant tree line.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, natural color fading, visible grain, exposure variation, and dark contact-frame borders that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a rural labor insert, agricultural cutaway, seasonal work detail, or quiet memory beat within a 1950s Midwest sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually documents small-scale field work in an open rural landscape without showing identifiable brands, signage, or public events.
Research note: An adult person is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property considerations.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s Wisconsin farm work, 8mm home movie field labor, man planting in rural field, small tractor footage, and Midwest agriculture cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Wisconsin Dells 1954 material, then broader 1950s rural farming and field work footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Wisconsin Dells in 1954, a man in a straw hat and plaid shirt crouches beside small farm equipment in an open field. — A man works low to the ground beside a small farm implement in a rural field.

A 1954 Wisconsin Dells farm scene shows a man crouched near a small implement, with fields and a road behind him. — The worker remains crouched beside equipment, with open farmland stretching behind him.

In the 1954 Wisconsin Dells home movie, the man works close to the soil beside equipment as fields and trees fill the background. — A low, handheld view frames the worker against tilled soil and distant farmland.

The final frame shows the Wisconsin Dells farm worker crouched beside a small implement and container, bordered by dark 8mm frame edges. — The man continues field work beside the implement as the home-movie frame darkens at the edges.

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