Missouri USA-1961: Man Sits On Top Of His Tractor Then Uses Machinery To Push

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationMissouri, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Missouri

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Man Sits On Top Of His Tractor Then Uses Machinery To Push — Clip Details

MISSOURI USA-1961: A man in a light-colored shirt sits atop a red tractor in a rural field, operating farm machinery. The 8mm film captures the vintage agricultural scene with natural sunlight and a slightly overexposed sky. The footage shows the man guiding the tractor as it pushes a large pile of harvested crops, likely corn, across the field. The grainy texture and color fading typical of 1960s home movies add to the authentic, nostalgic feel of this archival Americana footage.

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: 124869676

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: 1961 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: Missouri, 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

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 1960s rural Missouri agriculture requests needing real home-movie footage of tractor work and crop handling for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The red tractor, open field, manual farm operation, and 8mm color home-movie look support an early-1960s rural farming setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged family-film viewpoint, watching a man operate farm machinery from a short distance in natural daylight.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man on a red tractor, tall vegetation, an open field, farm machinery panels, crop material, bright sky, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries soft focus, visible grain, color fading, slight overexposure, and gate edges typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: Editors could use this as an agricultural cutaway, rural labor insert, transition into farm life, or brief memory beat about mechanized field work.
Historical context: The scene shows small-scale rural field work in Missouri, with a person operating machinery among crops rather than a staged demonstration.
Research note: A visible adult figure may require likeness review, while copyright, location, and machinery identification should be assessed separately before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 Missouri 8mm farm footage, vintage tractor in field, rural agriculture home movie, and crop pushing machinery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Missouri 1961 farm footage, then broader 1960s rural agriculture and tractor work scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Missouri home-movie frame showing a man seated on a red tractor or farm machine in a field with tall vegetation behind him. — A man sits on farm machinery in a rural field.

1961 Missouri farm scene with a man operating red machinery in an open field, seen through soft 8mm color footage. — The operator sits on the machinery as the field fills the background.

A 1961 Missouri 8mm frame shows a man on red farm equipment, with crop rows or vegetation and a washed bright sky behind him. — The tractor and operator are framed from a low, distant home-movie angle.

1961 Missouri farm footage appears to show machinery moving or pushing harvested crop material across an open field. — The machinery works against a large spread of crop material in the field.

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