Nebraska USA-1959: Man Digging Hole in Yard on Summer Day

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNebraska, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1951 Nebraska

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Man Digging Hole in Yard on Summer Day — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Nebraska, USA, in 1959, showing a shirtless man in blue jeans digging a hole in a grassy yard on a hot summer day. He uses a shovel to move dirt, creating a large pile in a rural outdoor setting with trees and a wooden fence in the background. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and a characteristic frame border, capturing authentic mid-century Americana. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into everyday life and manual labor during the late 1950s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122647037

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: 1959 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: Nebraska, 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 requests needing late-1950s Nebraska home-movie footage of rural outdoor work, yard labor, or everyday manual digging for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The shirtless man in jeans, open grassy yard, dirt pile, wire fencing, and 8mm color stock support a mid-century rural home-movie setting without identifying a specific site.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in an unstaged domestic moment, with a person working alone while the camera observes from a distance rather than presenting a formal portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a shirtless man, blue jeans, shovel, pale dirt mound, grassy ground, bare trees or brush, fence posts, and a distant rural structure.
Film character: The clip has 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, frame-edge shadows, and mild exposure variation across the contact-sheet frames.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, cutaway, or memory beat for outdoor labor, rural household work, summer heat, or mid-century everyday life.
Historical context: The footage visually reflects ordinary yard or land work in a rural American setting, but the exact purpose of the hole or the property context is not shown.
Research note: A visible adult person may require likeness review, and copyright clearance should be handled separately from any privacy or property considerations.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s Nebraska 8mm home movie, man digging with shovel, rural yard work, summer outdoor labor, and mid-century Americana footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Nebraska 1959 home movies, then thematically similar rural work, yard, summer, or manual-labor scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1959 Nebraska home-movie footage, a shirtless man in jeans works with a shovel beside a dirt mound in a rural yard. — A man digs near a growing mound of soil in an open grassy yard.

The man stands on or near the dirt pile with a shovel, framed by grass, brush, and fence posts in rural Nebraska footage from 1959. — The worker pauses or shifts position while standing near the excavation.

Seen from behind, the shirtless man stands on the dirt mound in a grassy Nebraska yard, with brush and fence posts beyond him. — The man faces away from the camera while working around the dug-out area.

The final frame shows the man near the mound with his shovel, surrounded by grass, brush, and rural fencing in 1959 Nebraska footage. — The digging continues beside the loose soil pile at the edge of the yard.

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