Iowa USA-1959: Workers Operating Farm Tractor at Night

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

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Workers Operating Farm Tractor at Night — Clip Details

IOWA USA-1959: Men in overalls and work shirts operate a large vintage tractor with prominent red wheels at a rural farm. The scene captures manual labor and mechanical work under dim, atmospheric lighting, likely dusk or night, with trees in the background. Shot on 8mm film, the footage shows natural grain and color shifts typical of home movies from the era, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century agricultural life and farm machinery operation.

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: 124867992

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s rural America sequences needing home-movie coverage of farm labor, tractor operation, or agricultural machinery work in Iowa.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century farm machinery with large red spoked wheels, men in work shirts and overalls, and an outdoor rural work area bordered by trees.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal observer perspective as people gather around equipment and work without staged presentation to the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include men in work clothes, a large tractor or farm machine, red spoked wheels, dark tires, grass, trees, and dim outdoor light.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries dense grain, high contrast, saturated color shifts, soft focus, and handheld framing typical of small-gauge home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, rural labor insert, machinery detail, or memory beat within a farm-life sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for hands-on agricultural work and equipment-centered activity in a rural Iowa setting in 1959.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1959 Iowa farm workers, 8mm tractor footage, vintage farm machinery, rural labor home movie, and red wheel tractor.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Iowa 1959 farm scenes, then broader 1950s agricultural machinery and rural labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Iowa in 1959, men in overalls and work shirts gather near a large tractor or farm machine with red spoked wheels under dim outdoor light. — Men gather around a large farm machine with red wheels in a rural outdoor setting.

A 1959 Iowa home-movie frame shows men around a dark tractor-like machine with a large red spoked wheel and trees behind them. — Workers stand near the rear and side of a tractor-like farm machine with a red wheel.

Men in mid-century work clothing appear around farm equipment with red spoked wheels in an Iowa rural setting, filmed on 8mm in 1959. — A small group works or watches near farm machinery on grass.

At the end of the 1959 Iowa clip, a man in a light shirt stands near a large red wheel as others remain beside the farm machine. — A man stands near the red wheel while others continue activity around the machinery.

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