Illinois USA-1947: Man Harvesting In Field With Vintage Car In Background

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

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Man Harvesting In Field With Vintage Car In Background — Clip Details

A man in a dark sweater and hat works in a dry field with a rake, likely harvesting crops in rural Illinois during the fall of 1947. In the background, a vintage wood-paneled station wagon sits near a simple farmhouse. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows natural wear with scratches and grain, capturing a quiet moment of farm life. The man moves methodically across the field, his actions reflecting the seasonal labor of the era. This authentic home movie offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 124914848

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s rural Illinois sequences needing a brief home-movie view of field work, seasonal labor, or farm life for documentary, museum, education, or period cutaway use.
Period detail: The dark sweater, brimmed hat, hand rake, dry field, farmhouse edge, and wood-paneled station wagon may show postwar rural domestic life and farm work in 1947 Illinois.
Home-movie behavior: The man appears unaware of the camera as he works methodically in the field, giving the clip an unstaged home-movie record of ordinary outdoor labor.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man with a rake, dry grasses or cut field, a parked wood-paneled station wagon, a pale building wall, fence posts, open horizon, and film-edge framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, muted color, gate edges, scratches, dust, and slight exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a rural labor insert, farm-life transition, seasonal memory beat, or quiet cutaway between broader 1940s family or agricultural scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually places manual outdoor work beside domestic buildings and a family car, suggesting a small-scale rural setting without proving the crop, farm ownership, or occasion.
Research note: A person is visible and should be reviewed for likeness concerns; no logos or music are evident, but copyright, location, and property permissions require separate clearance review.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1947 Illinois 8mm farm work, 1940s rural field labor, home movie man raking field, vintage station wagon farmhouse, and postwar Americana cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1947 Illinois material, then rural farm, harvest, field work, vintage car, and home-movie Americana themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1947 Illinois home-movie footage, a man works with a rake in a dry field while a wood-paneled station wagon sits near a simple building. — Man raking or gathering material in a dry field with a station wagon and building in the background.

A man in rural Illinois appears to rake or gather field material, with fence posts, a pale building, and a vintage station wagon in the background. — Field work continues beside a rural building and parked wood-paneled station wagon.

The home-movie frame shows the man closer to camera as he moves through the field, with the vintage station wagon partly seen at left. — Blurred closer view of the worker crossing the field as the parked car remains in the background.

A distant view shows the man bent over his rake in an open Illinois field, framed by soft 8mm grain, scratches, and pale sky. — Distant field-work view with the man bent over a rake against an open rural horizon.

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