South Dakota USA-1953: Farmer Harvests Hay and Saddles Horse in Open Field

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationSouth Dakota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 South Dakota

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Farmer Harvests Hay and Saddles Horse in Open Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from South Dakota, USA, in 1953, showing a man in light-colored work clothes and a dark cap harvesting hay in a vast, open field under a blue sky with scattered clouds. The grainy, color-bleached film shows natural wear and scratches. The man bends over to gather hay, then moves to saddle a white horse with black markings, preparing for work. The scene captures rural life and agricultural labor in the American Midwest during the 1950s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 122622344

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: 1953 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: South Dakota, 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 1950s rural American Midwest sequences needing authentic home-movie views of hay gathering, open prairie farmland, and horse handling.
Period detail: The light work clothes, open field, hand hay gathering, and 8mm color home-movie look support a 1953 South Dakota rural setting from the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes ordinary farm work at close range, with a man bending to gather hay and then saddling a horse without staged performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in pale work clothes, loose hay, open grassland, a white horse with dark markings, distant farm equipment, blue sky, clouds, and film frame borders.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, grain, scratches, uneven exposure, and contact-print framing that give it clear physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural labor insert, a transition into ranch or farm life, or a brief memory beat for midcentury South Dakota.
Historical context: The footage shows small-scale outdoor agricultural work and horse preparation in a broad open field, reflecting everyday rural activity rather than a formal event.
Research note: A visible adult may require likeness review, while no logos, minors, audible music, or clearly identifiable private property are apparent from the supplied frames.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950s South Dakota farm home movie, 8mm hay harvest, man saddling horse, rural Midwest ranch work, and vintage prairie agriculture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with other 1953 South Dakota footage, then with broader 1950s rural farming and horse-handling clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 South Dakota home-movie frame showing a man gathering hay in a broad open field with distant equipment and clouds. — A man bends over loose hay in a wide rural field.

1953 South Dakota frame of a man working with hay in an open prairie field, seen through grainy 8mm film. — The farmer gathers hay in the open field as distant equipment sits along the horizon.

1953 South Dakota home-movie frame showing a man beside a white and dark-marked horse while preparing tack near hay. — The man works beside the horse in the field, partly shaded in the soft 8mm exposure.

1953 South Dakota frame of a man adjusting a saddle or tack on a white horse with dark markings in open farmland. — The man continues adjusting the horse's tack in the open field.

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