Russia-1963: Couple Harvests Wheat By Hand In Rural Field

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Year1963
Decade1960s
LocationRussia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1963 Russia

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Couple Harvests Wheat By Hand In Rural Field — Clip Details

A man and woman work together in a golden wheat field in rural Russia, 1963. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures them bending to gather and bundle harvested grain by hand. The man wears a blue shirt and trousers, while the woman wears a dark dress and a blue headscarf. Their movements are deliberate and rhythmic, reflecting traditional agricultural labor. The warm, sun-drenched light and natural film grain give the clip a nostalgic, authentic quality. This vintage home movie offers a glimpse into everyday life and rural work during the early 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124873661

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1963 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: Russia 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: 1960s rural Russia home-movie footage for productions needing everyday manual agricultural labor or wheat harvest activity.
Period detail: The clothing, 8mm color stock, and hand-bundling of grain may show early-1960s rural field work consistent with the 1963 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The couple bends, gathers, and carries wheat with an informal home-movie viewpoint that preserves unposed work rhythms.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a blue shirt, a woman in a dark dress and blue headscarf, wheat stalks, cut bundles, green field edges, and warm sunlight.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, saturated color shifts, and handheld framing that read as original physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural labor insert, harvest cutaway, memory beat, or transition within a sequence on everyday Soviet-era life.
Historical context: The footage documents small-scale field work and shared manual harvest activity without proving ownership, location within Russia, or broader policy context.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed; copyright status is separate from any personal or location-related permissions.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1963 Russia 8mm wheat harvest, rural Soviet home movie, couple harvesting grain by hand, and vintage farm labor footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel rural scenes, then other Russia 1963 material, then broader 1960s manual farming or harvest footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1963 Russia footage, a man in a blue shirt and a woman in dark clothing gather wheat by hand in a rural field. — A couple bends over cut wheat while working at the edge of a golden field.

A man and woman work separately among cut grain, gathering wheat stalks by hand in rural Russia, 1963. — The man and woman continue bundling wheat stalks in the field.

The woman lifts or carries a gathered wheat bundle as the man continues working beside her in the 1963 rural field scene. — A woman raises a wheat bundle while the man works nearby.

The woman in a dark dress walks near cut wheat while the man bends to gather stalks in rural Russia, 1963. — The woman steps through the field as the man continues gathering wheat.

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