Portland Oregon USA-1957: Agricultural Field with Casino Sign

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationPortland, Oregon, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Portland Oregon

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Agricultural Field with Casino Sign — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Portland, Oregon, 1957, showing a rural landscape with a winding road and distant mountains under a clear blue sky. The clip features a prominent roadside billboard for a casino, with bold lettering and bright colors, followed by a scene of several people working in a large, empty agricultural field. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural color fading, and visible grain, capturing a nostalgic slice of mid-century Americana. The sequence ends with a dark frame and a brief glimpse of film damage, emphasizing its authentic archival quality.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 122656082

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: Yes
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: 1957 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: Portland, Oregon, 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 1950s archival requests needing rural Oregon road travel, roadside signage context, or agricultural field labor as documentary cutaway footage.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century road infrastructure, open fields, utility poles, distant hills, and small groups working by hand in a broad agricultural landscape.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie perspective, shifting from a roadside view to distant workers in a field without formal composition or posed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a curving road, utility poles, distant hills, open farmland, small groups of field workers, a bright foreground blur, and dark film frames.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, handheld framing, uneven exposure, gate edges, dust marks, and faded color that reflect original home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat between travel, rural work, and mid-century landscape sequences.
Historical context: The images place road travel and agricultural labor in a broad rural setting, offering visual context without identifying the workers, crop, or exact site.
Research note: People are visible at a distance and signage or brands may appear, so likeness, trademark, and location review should be separate from copyright assessment.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950s 8mm Oregon road footage, rural field workers home movie, mid-century agricultural landscape, and roadside travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Portland or Oregon material from 1957, then broader 1950s rural road and farm labor clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Oregon home-movie view of a curving road, roadside structures, utility poles, trees, and hills in the distance. — Roadside view looking along a curving road toward distant hills and scattered buildings.

Dark transitional film frame with no clearly identifiable subject visible. — A dark interval appears between visible home-movie shots.

Distant field workers in an open agricultural landscape, with a bright foreground blur and low horizon beyond the field. — Small figures work across a broad field, seen from a distant home-movie viewpoint.

1957 Oregon home-movie frame showing several distant people working in a broad agricultural field with hills faintly visible. — Workers are spaced across the field, with distant hills and a pale sky behind them.

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