Iowa USA-1959: Vintage Red Agricultural Machine

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

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Vintage Red Agricultural Machine — Clip Details

IOWA USA-1959: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a large red agricultural machine, likely a thresher or combine, parked outdoors on a sunny day. The footage shows the complex mechanical structure with wheels and belts, filmed from a low angle with trees in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, evoking mid-century Americana and rural farm life. This archival clip offers authentic period footage for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or educational projects about agricultural technology.

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: 124867714

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: Useful for 1950s rural America requests needing authentic 8mm footage of agricultural machinery, farm displays, or mid-century mechanical equipment as documentary cutaway material.
Period detail: The red-painted machinery, spoked wheels, belt housings, and nearby older automobile may show mid-century farm technology presented outdoors in Iowa.
Home-movie behavior: The camera lingers from a casual visitor angle, suggesting home-movie observation of a large farm machine rather than staged demonstration footage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red agricultural machine, metal wheels, belts and housings, an older dark car, several adults, trees, bright ground, and heavy frame borders.
Film character: The clip has saturated 8mm color, soft focus, gate shadows, grain, exposure variation, and slight handheld blur that mark it as scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, rural technology cutaway, transition into farming history, or memory beat within a 1950s Americana sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually connects mid-century leisure filming with agricultural machinery and public outdoor display, without proving a specific farm, fair, or manufacturer.
Research note: People are visible but not clearly identifiable; review likeness, location, and any machinery design or display context separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1959 Iowa 8mm farm machinery, vintage red thresher or combine, rural Americana home movie, and mid-century agricultural equipment footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Iowa or 1959 clips, then broader rural machinery, farm life, or mid-century technology material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Iowa home-movie frame showing a red agricultural machine, a dark older car, adults, trees, and bright open ground. — A red farm machine is filmed near an older car and several adults in an outdoor setting.

Red agricultural machinery fills the frame, with metal wheels, belt housings, trees, and a person partly visible nearby. — The camera moves closer to the red machine, emphasizing its wheels and mechanical structure.

Close 8mm frame of the red agricultural machine, showing spoked wheels, belt assemblies, and a dark older car partly behind it. — A closer angle records the machine's red-painted frame and visible mechanical parts.

Final frame holds on the red agricultural machine outdoors in Iowa, with wheels, belt housings, trees, and bright ground visible. — The clip ends on a steady view of the red machine parked in the open air.

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