California USA-1936: Horses Plowing Field With Farmer

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Year1936
Decade1930s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1936 California

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Horses Plowing Field With Farmer — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from California USA in 1936 shows a team of horses pulling a plow across a vast, flat agricultural field. A farmer walks alongside the horses, guiding them as they work the soil. The black-and-white film exhibits classic grain, scratches, and a soft focus typical of amateur 8mm recordings from the era. The wide, open landscape stretches to the horizon under a hazy sky, capturing a moment of rural labor and agricultural life in the American West.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
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: 121506147

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1936 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: California, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s California agricultural footage for documentary or educational requests needing horse-drawn field labor before widespread mechanized farming.
Period detail: The horse team, plow harness, broad open field, and black-and-white 8mm look support a rural 1930s agricultural setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes working horses and a farmer from a distance, preserving an unstaged view of everyday field labor.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include harnessed horses, a farmer or handler, plow gear, dust, flat tilled land, horizon line, and hazy sky.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm focus, pronounced grain, gate edges, scratches, and variable exposure that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural labor insert, agricultural transition, Depression-era visual cutaway, or quiet memory beat.
Historical context: The footage shows animal-powered farm work in an open California field, offering visual context for rural labor practices of the period.
Research note: A person is visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed even though no logos, music, or obvious private property appear.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s California farm footage, 8mm horse plowing field, home movie agricultural labor, and rural American West.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then California 1936 rural material, then broader horse-drawn farming or field labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1936 California home-movie frame showing a horse team pulling farm equipment while a farmer walks beside them in an open field. — Horses and a farmer work across a broad agricultural field.

Harnessed horses pull field equipment across a dusty California agricultural landscape in this 1936 8mm frame. — The horse team continues across the field, partially obscured by dust.

A farmer or handler stands beside a harnessed horse in a 1936 California field, filmed from a distant home-movie viewpoint. — The farmer pauses near one of the harnessed horses in the field.

A harnessed horse is seen in soft focus in an open California field, with dust and film grain visible across the frame. — A harnessed horse remains in view as dust softens the field behind it.

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