Baja California Mexico-1952: Man Wearing A Hat And A Long Sleeve Shirt Harvesting Cotton

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationBaja California, Mexico
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Man Wearing A Hat And A Long Sleeve Shirt Harvesting Cotton — Clip Details

A man in a wide-brimmed hat and long-sleeve shirt harvests cotton by hand in a sunlit field, his hands moving skillfully through the fluffy white bolls. Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures rural labor in Baja California, Mexico, with natural color and film grain. The scene reflects mid-century agricultural life, showcasing traditional cotton picking under bright daylight.

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: 123337680

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 1650 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: mexico
Date: 1952 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Baja California, Mexico Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: Serves documentary and educational productions needing mid-century Mexican agricultural labor footage, specifically 1950s hand-cotton-harvesting in Baja California.
Period detail: Wide-brimmed straw hat and hand-harvesting method are consistent with 1950s rural Mexican agricultural practice; a bullfighting poster with Spanish text appears in the opening frame.
Home-movie behavior: Shot by a traveler pausing to document a laborer at work, reflecting the curious outsider perspective common in mid-century American road-trip home movies.
What appears in frame: Man in straw hat and blue long-sleeve shirt stooped over cotton plants, fluffy white cotton bolls filling a wide sunlit field, a large collection sack, and a colorful building facade with a printed bullfighting poster in the opening frame.
Film character: Warm 8mm color with visible grain and slightly overexposed highlights on the white cotton bolls lend the footage its characteristic mid-century archival texture.
Edit role: Functions as a documentary insert or b-roll cutaway illustrating manual agricultural labor, rural Mexico, or mid-century working conditions in travel or social history productions.
Historical context: Hand-harvesting cotton was practiced in rural Mexico in this era; the opening frame showing a bullfighting poster suggests this clip is a scene cut within a longer road-trip reel.
Research note: The worker's face is largely obscured by his hat brim; a bullfighting poster with legible printed text in frame 0 may require separate rights review; no identity or property clearance can be assumed.
Research search match: 1950s Mexico cotton picking, vintage hand harvesting cotton film, Baja California farm labor, mid-century agricultural home movie 8mm.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from this 1952 New Orleans-to-Pacific reel; then with 1950s Mexican rural or agricultural footage; then with mid-century Latin American labor documentary material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Yellow and red painted building wall with a printed bullfighting event poster bearing a matador illustration and Spanish text, Mexico, circa 1952. — Bullfighting poster on a building facade, Mexico, 1952.

Cotton picker in wide-brimmed straw hat and blue shirt stooped over cotton plants in a sunlit field, Baja California, Mexico, circa 1952. — Cotton picker harvesting by hand, Baja California, 1952.

Cotton harvester in wide-brimmed hat and blue long-sleeve shirt working through a dense cotton field with a collection sack, Baja California, circa 1952. — Hand-harvesting cotton, Baja California, Mexico, 1952.

Cotton picker in straw hat stooping over dense cotton plants in a sunlit field, Baja California, Mexico, circa 1952. — Cotton picking by hand, Baja California, 1952.

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