Minnesota USA-1958: Harvester Gathering Grain In Field And Augering It Into Trailer

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Minnesota

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Harvester Gathering Grain In Field And Augering It Into... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a farmer operating a combine harvester in a dusty field in Minnesota. The red harvester moves through the crop, its auger extended as it gathers grain and loads it into a white trailer. Dust billows around the machine, partially obscuring the view, while the operator sits at the controls under a clear blue sky. The footage shows the raw, unfiltered reality of mid-century American agriculture, with authentic film grain and natural lighting.

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: 124862835

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: 1958 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: Minnesota, 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 America sequences needing real 8mm harvest footage, agricultural labor texture, or a brief documentary insert of grain handling in Minnesota.
Period detail: The open operator position, wagon-style trailer, and 8mm color home-movie look support a mid-century farm setting, with the 1958 Minnesota date coming from supplied clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a practical field-side distance as machinery works through dust, giving the clip an unstaged family-film view of farm labor rather than a directed scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red combine or harvester, seated operator, extended auger, white grain trailer, crop stubble, blue sky, and heavy dust around the machine.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, gate marks, mild exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserve the physical texture of a home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, rural work insert, seasonal transition, or memory beat within a sequence about farming, harvest, or mid-century family life.
Historical context: The footage visually documents mechanized grain harvest on a Minnesota field, showing the dust, scale, and operator exposure typical of the farm work visible in the frames.
Research note: A person is visible operating the machine, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are evident, and copyright, location, and any property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under 1958 8mm Minnesota farm harvest, combine augering grain into wagon, dusty field work, or mid-century American agriculture footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Minnesota farm footage, then broader clips of grain harvest, combines, tractors, and rural labor.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Minnesota 8mm frame showing a farmer on a red harvester with an auger near a white grain trailer in an open field. — Operator sits on the harvester as the auger and trailer are visible at the edge of the field.

Dusty 1958 Minnesota farm footage frame with the harvester partly obscured as it works through the crop. — The harvester becomes partly hidden by dust as it continues through the field.

A grain harvester appears through a dense dust cloud in the Minnesota field, with its long auger extending left. — Heavy dust softens the outline of the machine while the auger remains visible.

The machine emerges in profile as dust drifts across the crop row and sky.

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