Illinois USA-1947: Man Tilling Land Interrupted By Wife Outside

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

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Man Tilling Land Interrupted By Wife Outside — Clip Details

ILLINOIS USA-1947: A man in a dark suit and fedora tills the dry, grassy land with a hoe in front of a white farmhouse, while a vintage car sits in the background. A woman in a light-colored dress walks across the yard, briefly interrupting his work. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows natural grain, scratches, and a faded color palette typical of mid-century home movies, capturing a quiet moment of rural life.

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: 124914823

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: 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 or Midwestern home-life requests needing a brief exterior work moment with adults near a farmhouse.
Period detail: Visible period clues include 8mm color home-movie stock, a man in a fedora and dark work clothes, a light farmhouse, and an older rounded automobile.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual, unstaged yard activity as a woman crosses near a man working the dry grass with a hoe.
What appears in frame: The frames show a man with a hoe, a woman in a pale dress, dry grass, a white farmhouse, a parked vintage car, fence posts, and film gate edges.
Film character: Faded color, soft focus, dust, scratches, gate edges, and slight handheld framing give the clip a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural-life insert, family memory beat, domestic cutaway, or transition within a 1940s farm or small-town sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually suggests everyday rural domestic life in postwar-era Illinois without identifying the people, property, or exact community shown.
Research note: Adults and faces are visible, so likeness and contextual use should be reviewed separately from any copyright or archive license assessment.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1947 Illinois 8mm home movie, rural couple outside farmhouse, man hoeing yard, vintage car farm scene, and 1940s countryside footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel family or yard scenes, then other 1947 Illinois footage, then broader rural work and domestic home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1947 Illinois home-movie footage, a woman in a light dress walks across a yard beside a pale farmhouse. — A woman crosses the grass near the farmhouse at the start of the clip.

A man in a dark outfit and fedora works dry ground with a hoe outside a farmhouse in 1947 Illinois. — The man hoes the dry yard while a rounded vintage car sits behind him.

A 1947 Illinois yard scene shows a man pausing with a hoe near a farmhouse and parked older car. — The man stands with the hoe as the farmhouse and car remain in the background.

The closing frame keeps the man hoeing in a rural Illinois yard, with farmhouse wall and vintage car behind him. — The rural work moment continues with the man framed beside fence posts and the farmhouse.

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