Illinois USA-1947: Women Picking Vegetation in Field

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

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Women Picking Vegetation in Field — Clip Details

ILLINOIS USA-1947: Two women in patterned dresses walk through a sun-drenched field, gathering vegetation under a hazy sky. Shot on 8mm film, the footage shows natural movement and a handheld perspective, with one woman holding a bundle of greenery. The image is grainy and weathered, with visible scratches and film artifacts, capturing a candid moment of rural life. The scene evokes a sense of nostalgia and everyday activity in the post-war era.

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: 124914805

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 sequences needing brief home-movie footage of women gathering plants in an open field for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The dresses, open agricultural landscape, and 8mm color home-movie look support the supplied 1947 Illinois context without identifying a specific farm or event.
Home-movie behavior: The women move casually toward and around the camera, one shielding her face and holding greenery, giving the clip an unstaged family-film quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two adult women, patterned dresses, tall grass, gathered greenery, a hazy sky, distant fields, and a small shed-like structure.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, handheld framing, muted color, grain, scratches, dust, and uneven exposure that read as authentic 8mm archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural-life insert, seasonal cutaway, transition into postwar home life, or quiet memory beat around everyday outdoor work.
Historical context: The scene shows women gathering vegetation in a field, suggesting ordinary rural or domestic activity rather than a documented public event.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are seen, and copyright status should be assessed separately from privacy or publicity rights.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1947 Illinois 8mm home movies, women in a rural field, postwar countryside footage, vegetation picking, and vintage farm-adjacent family film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with footage from the same reel, then other Illinois 1947 home movies, then broader 1940s rural field, summer, gardening, or family-life material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two adult women in patterned dresses stand in a rural Illinois field in 1947, with hazy farmland and a small structure behind them. — Two women pause in a grassy field with open farmland in the distance.

A woman in a patterned dress holds a bundle of greenery in a 1947 Illinois field, with open farmland under a pale sky. — A woman holds gathered vegetation while standing in tall grass.

A woman in a dark patterned dress turns with gathered plants in a rural Illinois field, captured in soft 8mm home-movie focus. — A woman turns in the field while carrying gathered vegetation.

A woman holding greenery raises one hand in a 1947 Illinois field, with flat farmland and a hazy horizon behind her. — A woman with gathered greenery raises her hand in the open field.

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