Wisconsin Dells Wisconsin USA-1954: The Simple Life In The Field

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

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The Simple Life In The Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, USA, in 1954, capturing rural farm life. A man in a plaid shirt and straw hat crouches in a tilled field, working the soil, while another man in a red shirt operates a classic red tractor. The scene unfolds in a wide, open agricultural landscape with bare trees and a dirt road under a pale sky. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color fading, and a slightly shaky, observational camera style, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century American agriculture and simple country living.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121493581

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s rural American agriculture requests needing brief 8mm home-movie views of field work and tractor use in Wisconsin.
Period detail: The clothing, open tractor, tilled field, and faded 8mm color support a mid-century farm-life reading consistent with the 1954 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged family-film viewpoint, watching one man work low in the soil while another rides a tractor through the same field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a crouching man in plaid, a straw hat, a red tractor, a man in a red shirt, tilled soil, bare trees, a dirt road, and open farmland.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, slight weave, muted color, and handheld framing give the footage the texture of original small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural-life insert, agricultural cutaway, seasonal transition, or quiet memory beat in a mid-century sequence.
Historical context: The footage shows small-scale field labor and tractor work in an open rural landscape without enough visual evidence to identify a specific farm or crop.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no readable brands or logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s Wisconsin farm footage, 8mm rural home movies, vintage tractor in field, and mid-century American country life.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1954 Wisconsin Dells footage, then broader 1950s rural farming and tractor scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Wisconsin Dells home-movie frame of a man in plaid crouching in a field, with open farmland and bare trees beyond. — A man works low to the ground in a tilled rural field.

1954 Wisconsin Dells farm scene with a crouching man in a straw hat near tractor machinery and a pale rural horizon. — The field worker remains near tractor equipment in the open landscape.

1954 Wisconsin Dells home-movie view of a red-shirted tractor operator beside a crouching field worker in tilled farmland. — A tractor operator passes close to a man working by hand in the field.

1954 Wisconsin Dells frame showing a red tractor and seated operator near a man crouched over field work, with bare trees behind. — The tractor and hand labor share the same field in a short rural home-movie scene.

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