Illinois USA-1947: Man Pumps Water Outside Barn with Dog

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Year1947
Decade1940s
LocationIllinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1947 Illinois

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Man Pumps Water Outside Barn with Dog — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1947, this vintage home movie captures a man in a white shirt and dark trousers pumping water from a hand pump outside a white barn in Illinois. A dog stands nearby in the tall, sun-drenched grass as the man works the pump handle. The footage shows natural film grain, slight scratches, and the warm, faded color palette characteristic of mid-century home movies. The scene evokes a quiet, rural American moment from the post-war era, with a utility pole visible in the distance under an overcast sky.

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: 124914622

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: 1947 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: Illinois, 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 1940s rural Illinois home-movie requests needing everyday farm or household water-use footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial context.
Period detail: The hand pump, plain white barn wall, utility pole, and work clothing may show mid-century rural domestic infrastructure consistent with the 1947 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The man appears to work the pump in an unstaged yard moment while a dog moves nearby, giving the clip quiet observational home-movie value.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a white shirt, a hand water pump, a dog, tall dry grass, a white barn wall, distant fields, and a utility pole.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, faded color, visible grain, gate edges, and surface scratches that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural-life insert, postwar home-memory cutaway, domestic labor beat, or transition within a farm or small-town sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents ordinary outdoor water pumping beside a barn, suggesting rural household or farm utility routines without proving ownership or occupation.
Research note: A person is visible and likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, while copyright, location, and property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1947 Illinois 8mm home movie, man pumping water, hand pump by barn, rural dog in tall grass, and postwar farmyard footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel rural family scenes, then other 1947 Illinois footage, then broader clips of hand pumps, barns, dogs, and mid-century farm chores.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1947 Illinois home-movie footage, a man in a white shirt works near a hand pump by a white barn as a dog waits in tall grass. — A man leans toward the hand pump beside the barn while the dog stands close by.

The man operates the outdoor hand pump near the white barn as the dog remains at the pump base in rural Illinois footage from 1947. — The pump handle is raised as the man works beside the barn and the dog stays near the base.

A man pauses beside the hand pump while the dog shifts away through the grass near the white barn in the 1947 Illinois scene. — The dog moves through the grass as the man remains near the pump outside the barn.

In the final frame, the man faces the hand pump beside the barn while the dog is partly low in the tall grass nearby. — The man looks toward the pump and the dog remains partly hidden in the grass at the barn edge.

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