Missouri USA-1961: Man Operating Red Farm Grader

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

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Man Operating Red Farm Grader — Clip Details

MISSOURI USA-1961: A man in a light-colored shirt and straw hat operates a red farm grader in a rural field. The vintage 8mm film captures him backing up the machine before pushing a large pile of chopped green vegetation forward. The footage shows the grader's wheels turning and the machine's blade moving through the crop, with trees lining the background under a clear sky. The clip exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century American agriculture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124869721

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 agriculture requests needing authentic home-movie footage of farm machinery moving crop or field material in Missouri.
Period detail: The straw hat, open field, red grader, and faded 8mm color may show early-1960s small-farm work, supported by the clip metadata date of 1961.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from a practical distance as an older man operates the grader, giving the scene an unstaged family-film view of farm labor.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an older man in a light shirt and hat, a red grader, turning wheels, a front blade, chopped green vegetation, open ground, trees, and sky.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, gate marks, mild exposure variation, and motion blur that preserve the texture of scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural labor insert, machinery cutaway, agricultural transition, or brief memory beat within a mid-century farming sequence.
Historical context: The footage provides visual context for mechanized field handling on a rural Missouri property without identifying the farm, crop, equipment brand, or people.
Research note: A person is visible, so likeness review may be needed, while copyright, privacy, and property questions should be assessed separately from the lack of visible logos.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1961 Missouri 8mm farm grader footage, older man operating agricultural machinery, and mid-century rural American home movies.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1961 Missouri rural footage, then broader 1960s farm machinery and fieldwork scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1961 Missouri footage, an older man in a light shirt and straw hat is seen with a red grader near trees and open ground. — Older man with a red grader at the edge of a rural field.

The red grader appears beside a large mound of chopped vegetation in a Missouri field under clear sky. — Grader blade moves into a mound of field material.

The 8mm frame shows the grader blade and red machinery pushing along a mound of vegetation in rural Missouri. — Close view of the grader working through piled vegetation.

The final frame holds on the red grader and blade near piled vegetation, with the rural Missouri field stretching behind. — Red grader blade beside a mound of chopped field material.

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