Iowa USA-1959: Red And Black Steam Engine Tractor

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationIowa, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Iowa

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Red And Black Steam Engine Tractor — Clip Details

IOWA USA-1959: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a classic red and black steam engine tractor at a rural fair or exhibition. The large, ornate vehicle features prominent yellow-spoked wheels and a tall smokestack, parked on dirt under leafy trees. The footage, shot on Super 8 film, shows slight camera movement and natural motion blur, with rich but slightly faded colors typical of 1950s home movies. This archival clip evokes nostalgia for mid-century Americana and early industrial machinery.

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: 124867664

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 1319 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: iowa
Date: 1959 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: Iowa, United States 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: Supports 1950s rural Americana or machinery archive requests needing brief 8mm footage of a steam traction engine at an Iowa fair or exhibition.
Period detail: The visible steam traction engine, dirt fairground setting, mature trees, and saturated home-movie color support a late-1950s rural exhibition context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, observing the tractor from nearby with slight handheld movement rather than staged presentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red and black steam traction engine, tall smokestack, yellow-spoked rear wheels, small front wheels, dirt ground, shade trees, and distant visitors.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, dense shadows, vivid color shifts, grain, and motion blur that read as mid-century home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short cutaway, industrial heritage insert, rural fair transition, or memory beat in a sequence about historic farm machinery.
Historical context: The footage visually places preserved steam-powered farm equipment in a public outdoor setting, suggesting mid-century interest in earlier industrial machinery.
Research note: People may be visible in the background, so likeness review is advised; no logos are visible, and copyright clearance remains separate from appearance or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s Iowa 8mm steam tractor, vintage traction engine home movie, rural fair machinery footage, and historic farm equipment film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Iowa 1959 rural fair material, then broader vintage steam tractor or historic farm machinery scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Iowa home-movie frame showing a red and black steam traction engine with yellow-spoked wheels parked beneath shade trees. — Steam traction engine seen from the side at an outdoor rural exhibition.

Side view of the Iowa steam traction engine in 1959, with a bright smokestack and large spoked rear wheel visible under trees. — The traction engine remains parked on dirt with trees behind it.

A darker 1959 Iowa frame shows the steam traction engine from the side, with red wheel detail and shaded trees in the background. — Underexposed view of the traction engine as the camera angle shifts slightly.

Final 1959 Iowa frame of the steam traction engine partly in shade, showing its red wheel, large rear wheel, and leafy fairground setting. — The steam traction engine appears partly shadowed near the end of the clip.

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