Minnesota USA-1958: Red Tractor Plowing Freshly Fallen Snow Next To A Red Barn

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

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Red Tractor Plowing Freshly Fallen Snow Next To A Red Barn — Clip Details

A red tractor plows freshly fallen snow in front of a classic red barn on a crisp winter day in Minnesota, 1958. The vintage 8mm film captures a farmer operating the machine, with snow-covered ground and bare trees under a clear blue sky. The footage shows the tractor moving steadily, clearing a path through the deep snow, with the barn’s white-trimmed windows and doors visible in the background. The grainy texture and color palette of the Super 8 home movie evoke a nostalgic, mid-century American rural scene.

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: 124864303

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Archival home-movie footage from 1950s rural Minnesota showing a tractor clearing winter snow beside a red barn can support documentary or educational requests for mid-century farm life and seasonal work.
Period detail: The red tractor, painted barn with white trim, deep snow, and bare winter trees may show late-1950s rural farm equipment and outbuilding details consistent with the supplied 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage appears unstaged, observing a farmer operating a tractor through snow from a nearby home-movie vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red barn, red tractor, seated operator, snow-covered ground, bare trees, small outbuildings, white-trimmed doors and windows, and stacked or bundled material near a farm structure.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight gate edges, uneven exposure, and saturated winter color that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural winter insert, a transition into farm labor, or a brief memory beat for mid-century Upper Midwest life.
Historical context: The clip visually situates mechanized snow clearing within a small farm setting, showing winter maintenance around barns and outbuildings without making broader claims about the farm or community.
Research note: A person is visible operating the tractor, so likeness review may be relevant, while copyright, location, and property permissions should be assessed separately from the absence of visible logos.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1958 Minnesota farm snow plowing, 1950s 8mm red tractor barn winter, rural home movie snow clearing, and mid-century American farm winter footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Minnesota 1958 rural scenes, and then broader 1950s farm equipment, barns, snow, and winter labor material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Minnesota farmyard view with snow-covered ground, a red outbuilding, bare winter trees, and bundled material arranged near the building. — Snow-covered farmyard beside a red outbuilding.

1958 Minnesota winter farm scene with a red tractor and seated operator clearing snow beside a large red barn with white-trimmed openings. — Tractor plows snow near the red barn.

1958 Minnesota farm footage showing a red tractor with an operator pushing through deep snow near a red barn and a small outbuilding. — Tractor clearing a path through snow.

1958 Minnesota winter farmyard with a red tractor and operator clearing snow between a large red barn, smaller red outbuilding, and bare trees. — Farm tractor works across the snowy yard.

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