Middletown Pennsylvania-1975: A Man Riding A Tractor In A Field

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationMiddletown, Pennsylvania, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Man Riding A Tractor In A Field — Clip Details

A man in a white shirt and dark hat operates a vintage tractor through a lush green field in this 8mm home movie from Middletown Pennsylvania, 1975. The footage captures the farmer working the land, with the tractor moving steadily through rows of crops under a bright blue sky. The characteristic grain and color saturation of 8mm film give the clip a nostalgic, authentic feel, showcasing rural life and agricultural labor from the mid-1970s. The camera follows the tractor's movement, providing a dynamic view of farm work in progress.

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: 123225451

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: 1948 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: Middletown, Pennsylvania, 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: Supports archival requests for late-1940s rural Pennsylvania farm labor, tractor operation, and agricultural cutaways for documentary or education edits.
Period detail: The tractor, work clothes, open crop field, and 8mm color home-movie look may show mid-century mechanized farm work in a rural setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie perspective, observing a man driving a tractor through rows while the camera follows from nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a light shirt and dark hat, an older tractor, crop rows, tall grasses, open sky, distant trees, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The clip shows saturated blue and green color, soft focus, visible grain, handheld framing, and contact-print borders typical of scanned small-gauge film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural labor insert, agricultural transition, farm-memory beat, or cutaway within a sequence about everyday work.
Historical context: The scene visually places manual tractor work within a cultivated field, offering context for small-scale agricultural routines without naming the crop.
Research note: A person is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright status remains separate from appearance or location review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 8mm farm tractor footage, 1940s Pennsylvania agriculture, man driving tractor in field, and rural home movie farm work.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Middletown or Pennsylvania farm footage from the same year, then broader tractor and field-work scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Middletown, Pennsylvania archival 8mm footage, a man in a light shirt drives an older tractor through a green field. — A man operates a tractor between rows of crops under a bright sky.

A man seated on an older tractor works through rows in a green Pennsylvania field, seen in soft 8mm color. — The tractor continues through the field with the driver leaning toward the controls.

The driver and tractor appear closer to camera as the vehicle passes through crop rows in rural Middletown, Pennsylvania footage. — The tractor passes through taller vegetation with trees in the background.

A closer view shows the tractor driver in profile against the field and sky.

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