Hagerstown Maryland USA-1961: Autumn Field with Tractors

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationHagerstown, Maryland, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Hagerstown Maryland

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Autumn Field with Tractors — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a rural autumn landscape in Hagerstown, Maryland. A harvested cornfield stretches across the foreground, its dry stalks and debris covering the ground. In the distance, a bright orange tractor moves slowly across the field, with a second tractor visible further back. Bare trees line the horizon under a clear, pale blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of mid-century American farm 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: 123748157

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: 1961 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: Hagerstown, Maryland, 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: 1960s rural Mid-Atlantic farm footage for documentary edits needing an autumn field, tractor work, or mid-century agricultural landscape cutaway.
Period detail: The harvested corn rows, open tractor work, bare tree line, and 8mm home-movie color may show early-1960s farm activity near Hagerstown, Maryland.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distance with a casual home-movie perspective, holding on slow tractor movement across the field rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a harvested cornfield, dry stalk debris, orange tractors, small distant people, a dark tree line, pale blue sky, and rounded film-frame edges.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, mild color shift, gate edges, and slight handheld instability.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing insert, seasonal transition, agricultural cutaway, or quiet memory beat in a family or regional history sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually situates mechanized farm work within a small-scale rural landscape, with people and tractors appearing distant against a harvested field.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed even though faces, logos, and identifiable private property are not clear in these frames.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1961 8mm farm footage, Hagerstown Maryland cornfield, autumn tractor home movie, and rural American agriculture footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel farm scenes, then other Hagerstown or 1961 Maryland footage, then broader autumn field and tractor work material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 8mm home-movie view near Hagerstown, Maryland, showing a harvested field with distant orange tractors and leafless trees. — A harvested cornfield stretches toward distant tractors along the tree line.

A rural Hagerstown-area field in 1961, with orange tractors moving across harvested corn rows beneath a clear sky. — Two tractors are visible at different distances across the harvested field.

1961 8mm frame from Hagerstown, Maryland, with small distant people near an orange tractor in a harvested autumn field. — Small figures gather near a tractor at the field edge, with another tractor farther back.

Home-movie view of a Hagerstown-area harvested field in 1961, with distant figures, a tractor, and leafless trees on the horizon. — Distant people and a tractor appear against the dark tree line beyond the corn stubble.

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