Michigan USA-1958: Man Tending Vegetable Garden in Rural Field

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationMichigan, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Michigan

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Man Tending Vegetable Garden in Rural Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1958 in Michigan, USA, showing a man in a white long-sleeved shirt and green cap tending to a lush vegetable garden. He carefully examines leafy green plants, likely harvesting or inspecting produce, with a dense cornfield and trees in the background. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and a characteristic 1950s home movie aesthetic with dark frame borders. This authentic archival clip captures a quiet moment of rural life and agricultural care.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121496713

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 1210 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: bill's first birthday,blueberry field
Reel-level year note: 1956-1957-1958
Reel-level location note: michigan
Date: 1958 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: Michigan, 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: Supports requests for 1950s Michigan home-movie footage of rural gardening, small-scale agriculture, or everyday outdoor labor for documentary, museum, educational, or editorial use.
Period detail: The 1958 8mm color footage may show mid-century rural dress and garden practice, including a long-sleeved white shirt, belted trousers, soft cap, hand-tended leafy plants, and a cornfield beyond.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the unstaged concentration of an adult man inspecting or gathering plants at close range while the camera observes quietly from a home-movie distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an adult man, a white long-sleeved shirt, green cap, leafy garden plants, tall corn rows, grasses, trees, and dark 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm home-movie texture through visible grain, soft focus, slight color fading, handheld framing, uneven exposure, and dark gate edges around the image.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural-life cutaway, agricultural insert, seasonal memory beat, or transition between family, gardening, and mid-century countryside sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents a quiet domestic or small-scale agricultural activity in a rural Michigan setting without supporting claims about the specific farm, crop ownership, or named person.
Research note: An identifiable adult face is visible, so copyright licensing should be considered separately from likeness, privacy, and any location or property review needed for the intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 Michigan garden home movie, vintage 8mm man tending vegetables, rural cornfield family footage, and mid-century home garden film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1958 Michigan material, and then with broader themes of gardening, rural labor, crops, and home-movie family life.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Michigan 8mm frame showing an adult man in a white shirt and green cap near leafy garden plants, with corn rows and trees in the background. — A man pauses beside leafy garden plants with a cornfield behind him.

1958 Michigan home-movie frame of a man looking down at long green leaves or produce in a vegetable garden near a cornfield. — The man examines long green leaves or produce while standing in the garden.

1958 Michigan 8mm frame showing a man leaning over garden plants as he appears to inspect or handle produce, with corn rows behind him. — The man leans over the garden plants during a close inspection.

In profile, the man holds long leaves or produce beside dense garden growth.

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