California USA-1936: Horses Pulling Plows On A Farm

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

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Horses Pulling Plows On A Farm — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from California, USA, in 1936, showing horses working on a farm. The grainy black-and-white film captures horses pulling plows and carts across a dusty field, with a large barn visible in the background. Farmers in period attire guide the animals, illustrating the labor-intensive nature of early 20th-century agriculture. The footage has a nostalgic, archival quality with natural film grain and slight motion blur, offering a rare glimpse into rural American life during the Great Depression era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121506182

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: 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1930s California farm clip helps illustrate horse-drawn agricultural labor for documentary, education, or museum sequences about rural work before widespread mechanization.
Period detail: The horse teams, open plowed field, simple barn, and monochrome 8mm texture support a 1936 rural California setting, though the exact farm is not identified in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an observational home-movie feel, watching work animals and farmhands from a distance rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include horse teams, plow lines, a large barn, fence posts, farm workers, a dusty field, and open rural horizon.
Film character: The black-and-white 8mm scan shows coarse grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges that give the material clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, rural labor cutaway, Depression-era memory beat, or transition into agricultural history material.
Historical context: The scene visually places animal power at the center of farm work, showing labor, land, and equipment in a rural American setting during the 1930s.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed, while copyright, location, and property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1930s California farm footage, horse-drawn plowing, vintage 8mm agriculture, rural home movie, and barn with work horses.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1936 California rural footage, and then with broader themes of horse-powered farming and Great Depression agriculture.

Still Frames From This Clip

1936 California farm footage appears to show horses working in a dusty field, with soft 8mm grain and limited background detail. — Horses move through dust while pulling farm equipment across the field.

Horse teams gather near a large barn in rural California, filmed in grainy black-and-white 8mm footage from 1936. — Horse teams wait near a barn along the edge of a farm field.

A distant farm worker handles horses near a barn in 1936 California home-movie footage, with people visible but faces not clear. — A farm worker stands with horses beside the barn and fence line.

A distant horse-drawn farm implement works across a California field, leaving visible furrows in 1936 black-and-white 8mm footage. — A horse-drawn implement moves across the field, leaving curved furrow lines.

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