Portland Oregon USA-1957: Side View From Moving Car Footage Showing Farm Workers in Field

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

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Side View From Moving Car Footage Showing Farm Workers... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Portland, Oregon, 1957, captured from a moving car. The clip shows a rural landscape with a wide, tilled field under a pale blue sky. Several figures in light-colored clothing are seen working in the field, bent over in a line. The camera moves steadily, offering a side view of the farmland, with a house and trees visible in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural wear, conveying a nostalgic, authentic slice of mid-century American countryside life.

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: 122656090

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: 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 rural Pacific Northwest inserts, agricultural labor references, and moving-car countryside views in documentary or museum edits.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century farmland outside Portland, with open fields, low houses, simple roadside views, and distant workers in light clothing.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged roadside observation, with the camera passing workers and tilled land from a moving car rather than arranging a scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include field workers, broad tilled rows, pale sky, distant houses, trees, low hills, roadside movement, and aged film edges.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate shadows, and small scratches that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, transition, rural memory beat, or cutaway for agriculture and travel by car.
Historical context: The footage documents a quiet rural landscape near Portland in 1957, with field labor and nearby homes visible without identifying individuals.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; copyright, privacy, and property considerations should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1950s Oregon farm workers, Portland rural roadside 8mm, moving car farmland view, and vintage agricultural home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Portland or Oregon 1957 material, then broader 1950s farm labor and countryside travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Portland-area home-movie frame showing several distant workers in a flat field, seen from a moving car. — Distant workers bend over in an open field as the camera passes from the roadside.

Portland-area 1957 farmland view with plowed rows, distant houses, trees, and hills seen through soft 8mm exposure. — Rows of cultivated soil pass in front of houses and trees beyond the field.

1957 Oregon roadside frame showing cultivated rows, distant homes, trees, and low hills from a moving-car perspective. — The camera tracks past a cultivated field with houses and trees along the far edge.

A 1957 Portland-area home-movie frame of long furrows receding toward a distant rural horizon. — Long field rows recede toward trees and low hills as the car continues past.

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