Minnesota USA-1958: Red Thresher Moves Through Cornfield Cutting Crops

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

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Red Thresher Moves Through Cornfield Cutting Crops — Clip Details

A red thresher moves through a cornfield in Minnesota in 1958, captured on 8mm home movie film. The vintage footage shows the machine cutting rows of crops, kicking up dust as it progresses across the field. The scene unfolds under a pale blue sky, with a lone tree visible on a distant hill. The grainy, slightly faded quality of the Super 8 film adds authentic nostalgia, offering a glimpse into mid-century American agriculture and rural 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: 124862884

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 edits needing a brief agricultural machinery cutaway from Minnesota home-movie footage.
Period detail: The red harvesting machine, open corn rows, distant hill, and faded 8mm color support a late-1950s farm setting without visible brands or landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes field work from a simple farm-edge viewpoint, giving the clip an unstaged home-movie record of seasonal crop cutting.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red thresher, cut crop rows, standing corn or grain, dust, a pale sky, a low hill, and a lone distant tree.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, light gate wear, and slightly uneven exposure that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a rural labor insert, an agricultural transition, or a short memory beat within mid-century family or farm sequences.
Historical context: The scene shows mechanized crop cutting in an open Minnesota field, offering visual context for mid-century farm work and rural landscapes.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright and any property or location claims still require normal review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Minnesota farm footage, 8mm cornfield harvesting, red thresher in field, and 1950s American agriculture home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Minnesota rural footage, then broader 1950s farm machinery and harvest scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A red thresher works through a Minnesota crop field in 1958, with dust rising behind the machine under a pale sky. — Red thresher cutting through field rows and kicking up dust.

The red thresher appears farther across a 1958 Minnesota field, aligned with cut rows on a low hillside. — Distant thresher working along rows in the field.

Rows of cut crops lead toward a small red thresher in a Minnesota field, with a lone tree on the hill beyond. — Cut rows stretch toward the thresher on the hillside.

The thresher remains distant among crop rows in the 1958 Minnesota field, with the open hillside and lone tree visible behind it. — Distant thresher continues across the rowed field.

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