California USA-1936: Combine Harvester with Workers Loading Grain

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Combine Harvester with Workers Loading Grain — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from California USA in 1936 shows a team of rural workers operating a moving combine harvester under a clear sky. Men in period work clothes handle grain bags and operate the industrial machinery in a sunlit field. The grain is being loaded into sacks, with a large white umbrella providing shade. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and edge distortion, capturing authentic agricultural labor during the Great Depression era. This archival home movie footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into early 20th-century farming practices.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121506350

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: Useful for 1930s California agricultural labor requests, especially documentary or museum edits needing real 8mm footage of mechanized grain harvesting.
Period detail: The men's work clothes, open field setting, grain sacks, shade umbrella, and exposed machinery support a 1930s rural harvest scene in California.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has value as unstaged home-movie observation, watching workers handle sacks and machinery from close range rather than presenting a formal industrial film.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include men in work clothes, a moving combine harvester, grain sacks, a large shade umbrella, metal ladders, railings, wheels, and an open field.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, soft contrast, slight blur, edge vignetting, and contact-frame distortion that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, cutaway, or transitional memory beat for harvest labor, Depression-era agriculture, or rural mechanization.
Historical context: The scene visually places manual labor alongside mechanical harvesting, showing workers positioned around equipment as grain appears to be gathered into sacks.
Research note: People are visible and may require likeness review depending on use, while no logos, audible music, or clear private property are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1936 California 8mm farm harvest, vintage combine harvester, rural workers handling grain sacks, and Great Depression era agriculture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then California 1936 rural footage, then broader 1930s farming, grain harvest, and agricultural machinery material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1936 California 8mm frame showing rural workers around a combine harvester, with grain sacks and a shade umbrella on the machinery. — Workers gather near the combine as sacks and a large umbrella sit above the machinery.

Men in work clothes operate or tend a 1936 California combine harvester, with a large umbrella shading part of the machinery. — Men stand on the harvester structure while grain sacks and the shade umbrella remain visible.

California 1936 harvest footage shows workers positioned on a combine, with grain sacks, railings, and angled metal supports in view. — Workers handle the side of the harvester near sacks, railings, and exposed metal supports.

A soft 1936 California 8mm frame shows a worker near the moving harvester, with open farmland stretching behind him. — A worker appears beside the moving machinery as the open field fills the background.

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