Illinois USA-1947: Man Tending Sapling in Rural Countryside

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

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Man Tending Sapling in Rural Countryside — Clip Details

A man in a dark suit and fedora tends to a young sapling in a dry field, using a long-handled tool. Behind him, a vintage 1940s car and a simple white house stand in the rural Illinois countryside. The footage, shot on 8mm film in 1947, shows natural movement and a quiet, everyday moment of farm life. The image is grainy and weathered, with visible scratches and dust, capturing the authentic look of a home movie from the post-war era.

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: 124914843

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 home-movie requests needing everyday farm or countryside activity as documentary insert footage.
Period detail: The fedora, dark work clothes, simple house, open field and 1940s-era automobile support a postwar rural setting in Illinois.
Home-movie behavior: The man appears casually filmed while tending a young sapling, giving the clip an unstaged domestic or farm-life quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man with a long-handled tool, dry grass, a young sapling, a white house, a parked 1940s car and open countryside.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, muted color, visible grain, dust, scratches and slight handheld instability typical of aged home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural labor cutaway, postwar countryside insert, quiet transition or memory beat in a home-front sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows ordinary land care in a sparsely built rural setting, with clothing, vehicle and house forms indicating mid-century everyday life.
Research note: A visible adult face and residential setting may require likeness or property review; copyright status is separate from those concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1947 Illinois 8mm home movie, rural man tending sapling, postwar farm life and vintage countryside footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Illinois 1947 rural scenes, then broader 1940s farm, land care or home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In rural Illinois home-movie footage from 1947, a man in a fedora tends ground near a sapling, with a white house and 1940s car behind him. — A man works in dry grass near a small house and parked car.

The 1947 Illinois footage shows the man facing the camera while working in open grassland near a white house and parked mid-century car. — The man pauses or shifts position while holding the tool in the field.

A man in 1947 Illinois appears to tend a sapling in tall grass, framed by a white rural house and a parked 1940s automobile. — The man continues working beside the sapling in the rural yard or field.

The final frame shows the man turned sideways while tending the ground near a sapling in rural Illinois, with the house and car still visible. — The man turns as he works, with the rural house and car in the background.

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