California USA-1936: Man Drives Tractor In Field With Worker Under Umbrella

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

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Man Drives Tractor In Field With Worker Under Umbrella — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from California USA in 1936 shows a farmer operating a tractor in a rural field. The grainy black-and-white film captures the man driving the tractor, with another worker visible under a large umbrella for shade. The scene depicts agricultural labor during the Great Depression era, with the tractor moving across tilled earth. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics including natural grain, soft focus, and darkened edges from the film gate. This authentic archival material offers a nostalgic glimpse into early 20th-century farming practices and rural American life.

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: 121506313

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: Useful for 1930s California agriculture requests needing a brief archival insert of mechanized field labor and rural work practices.
Period detail: The tractor, open equipment, shade umbrella, and black-and-white 8mm look may show Depression-era farm work supported by the 1936 California metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels observational and unstaged, holding on workers and machinery from a nearby home-movie vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tractor, seated driver, field implement, large umbrella, standing workers, tilled ground, open farmland, and dark film-gate edges.
Film character: The clip carries a grainy black-and-white 8mm texture with soft focus, uneven exposure, gate shadowing, and slight contact-print instability.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural labor cutaway, mechanization insert, or short transition within a 1930s agriculture sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually situates farm labor around tractor-powered field work, with shade improvised beside machinery in an open agricultural setting.
Research note: People are visible and may require likeness review; no logos are apparent, and copyright, likeness, and property rights should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1930s California farm tractor footage, 8mm agricultural labor, rural field work, and archival home movie farming scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1936 California material, then broader farm labor or tractor mechanization footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1936 California home-movie frame showing a tractor moving through an open field with workers and field machinery visible. — A tractor moves toward the camera across open farmland.

A 1936 California field scene shows a tractor and farm implement moving through open ground in black-and-white 8mm footage. — The tractor continues across the field with its implement behind it.

California farm workers appear beside tractor equipment in 1936 footage, with a large umbrella providing shade near the machinery. — Workers gather around tractor equipment under a large shade umbrella.

A 1936 California home-movie frame shows workers around tractor machinery, with one seated nearby and a large umbrella overhead. — Farm workers remain beside the tractor machinery and shade umbrella.

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