California USA-1936: Two Members On The Tractor Ploughing The Acres Of Farming

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

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Two Members On The Tractor Ploughing The Acres Of Farming — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from 1936 in California, showing a tractor ploughing a vast agricultural field. The grainy black-and-white image captures a farmer operating the machine across open farmland, leaving distinct curved furrows in the soil. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with film grain, soft focus, and darkened borders. A long shadow stretches across the field, indicating bright sunlight. This authentic home movie captures rural farming life during the Great Depression era, offering a nostalgic glimpse into early 20th-century agriculture.

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: 121506207

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s California agricultural footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing period farm mechanization and rural field labor.
Period detail: The tractor, open field, curved furrows, and black-and-white 8mm texture support a 1930s rural California setting, while specific farm ownership or crop type is not identifiable.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie feel, watching working people and machinery from a distance rather than staging them for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tractor, two seated figures, a plough or field implement, broad soil rows, open farmland, strong sunlight, and dark film borders.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, gate shadows, and contact-frame borders that signal original physical film material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural labor insert, agriculture cutaway, Great Depression-era texture beat, or transition into a farming-history sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows mechanized field work in open California farmland during the 1930s, without enough visual evidence to identify the farm, crop, or workers.
Research note: People are visible but not identifiable in detail; copyright, likeness, and any location or property questions should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s California farming, 8mm tractor ploughing, Depression-era agriculture, rural field work, and vintage farm machinery footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other 1936 California clips, and then broader archive footage of tractors, ploughing, and rural farm labor.

Still Frames From This Clip

1936 California 8mm frame showing a distant tractor with two visible figures working across open farmland and leaving curved furrows. — A tractor moves across an open field, with two figures visible and curved furrows behind it.

1936 California 8mm frame with a tractor and attached field implement moving through a broad agricultural field under bright light. — The tractor advances through the field, with the ploughing implement extending to one side.

1936 California 8mm frame showing a tractor carrying two people near the edge of a field with visible furrow patterns. — The tractor passes lower in frame as the field rows curve across the background.

1936 California 8mm frame with a closer view of a tractor, two visible figures, and a side-mounted field implement in farmland. — A closer frame shows the tractor, two figures, and attached farm equipment working the field.

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