Iowa USA-1959: Very Old Green Tractor Demonstration

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

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Very Old Green Tractor Demonstration — Clip Details

IOWA USA-1959: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a classic green steam tractor at an agricultural demonstration. The large, dark machine features prominent spoked wheels and a tall smokestack, shown in motion on a dirt field under bright daylight. Trees frame the background as the camera pans slightly, highlighting the tractor's mechanical details and the nostalgic charm of mid-century farm technology. The footage exhibits natural film grain and color shifts typical of 1950s Super 8 film, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, history projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 124868287

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 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 U.S. agriculture edits needing brief color 8mm footage of a vintage steam tractor demonstration.
Period detail: The spoked steel wheels, smokestack, exposed boiler shape, and visitor-view framing may show older farm machinery being demonstrated in a mid-century setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, holding on the machine as it passes or idles rather than staging a formal machinery portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a green steam tractor, red spoked wheels, tall smokestack, canopy roof, dirt ground, bright daylight, and trees behind the demonstration area.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows heavy grain, strong contrast, color shift, soft focus, and contact-sheet frame variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, machinery insert, rural memory beat, or transition into agricultural history material.
Historical context: The footage visually connects older steam-powered farm equipment with public demonstration or preservation activity in rural Iowa home-movie coverage.
Research note: No people, brands, or private property are clearly identifiable in these frames, but copyright and any location or event permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Iowa 8mm tractor demonstration, vintage steam tractor footage, green farm machinery home movie, and 1950s agriculture archive film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Iowa 1959 agricultural footage, then broader vintage tractor or farm machinery demonstrations.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Iowa 8mm frame showing a green steam tractor with a canopy, smokestack, and large red spoked rear wheel on dirt ground. — Green steam tractor seen in partial side view during an outdoor demonstration.

1959 Iowa frame with the tractor closer in view, showing the green boiler body, canopy, smokestack, and large spoked rear wheel. — Closer side view emphasizes the tractor's boiler, canopy, and rear wheel.

1959 Iowa home-movie frame showing the green steam tractor filling much of the view, with its canopy, smokestack, and red spoked wheel visible. — The handheld view lingers on the tractor's side and wheel detail.

Wider profile view shows the full tractor form against trees and open ground.

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