Middletown Pennsylvania-1975: Man Driving Tractor Smoking Pipe

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

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Man Driving Tractor Smoking Pipe — Clip Details

A man in a white shirt and wide-brimmed hat drives a tractor across a rural field in this 8mm home movie from Middletown, Pennsylvania, 1975. He holds the steering wheel with one hand while smoking a pipe, his gaze focused ahead. The footage captures the slow, steady motion of the tractor through a sunlit landscape with scattered trees under a blue sky. The image has the characteristic grain, color shift, and soft focus of vintage 8mm film, evoking a nostalgic mid-20th century farm life. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 123225459

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: 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: Archival 1940s rural labor footage for productions needing an insert of tractor driving, farm work, or everyday agricultural life in Pennsylvania home movies.
Period detail: The wide-brimmed hat, open-collar white shirt, pipe, and older open tractor may show mid-century farm practice, consistent with the high-confidence 1948 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The man appears to drive naturally across the field without posing, giving the clip an unstaged home-movie view of routine farm operation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a hat, a pipe, tractor steering wheel, tractor body, open field, scattered trees, blue sky, and strong sun.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, mild color shift, and handheld framing that retain the texture of original home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a rural-life insert, agricultural cutaway, transition between farm scenes, or quiet memory beat around work and machinery.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a lone adult operating farm equipment in an open rural landscape, without showing identifiable brands, signage, or landmarks.
Research note: An adult face and likeness are visible, so copyright licensing should be considered separately from any likeness, privacy, or contextual clearance review.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1940s 8mm farmer driving tractor, Pennsylvania rural home movie, man smoking pipe on tractor, and mid-century farm footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Middletown or 1948 Pennsylvania footage, then broader rural farm, tractor, and agricultural home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Middletown, Pennsylvania home-movie footage from 1948, a man in a white shirt and hat leans forward while driving a tractor through a field. — A hat-wearing man leans over the tractor controls in an open rural field.

A man in a white shirt and brimmed hat smokes a pipe while steering an open tractor across a rural Pennsylvania field. — The driver smokes a pipe while guiding the tractor through the field.

Side view of the tractor driver in 1948 home-movie footage, with his hat, white shirt, pipe, steering wheel, field, and trees visible. — A side view catches the driver at the wheel with field and trees behind him.

Rear-side view of the man driving the tractor, with his white shirt, hat, steering wheel, nearby trees, and open rural setting visible. — The tractor continues past trees as the driver is seen from the side and rear.

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