Illinois USA-1947: Pan Across Open Field Toward Farmhouse in Distance

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

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Pan Across Open Field Toward Farmhouse in Distance — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1947, this vintage home movie captures a slow pan across a vast, open field in Illinois. The view, framed by a dark border, reveals a rural landscape with a farmhouse and outbuildings in the distance. The image is marked by classic Super 8 film grain, scratches, and slight blurriness, evoking a sense of quiet Americana and peaceful country life. The camera moves steadily, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century rural America.

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: 124914892

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: 1940s Illinois 8mm rural landscape footage suited to documentary inserts, regional history programs, and mid-century American countryside context.
Period detail: The distant farm buildings, open tilled field, low horizon, and simple fenced rural setting may show postwar-era agricultural Illinois.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, with the camera slowly scanning a quiet field from a distance rather than staging activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark film borders, plowed or rough field ground, flat horizon, distant ranch-style buildings, fencing, pale sky, and light film wear.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, fine grain, surface scratches, uneven exposure, and a steady handheld pan that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing insert, quiet transition, memory beat, or cutaway between family, travel, or agricultural sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually places domestic rural buildings within a broad open Illinois landscape without showing people, vehicles, signs, or identifiable public landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related use should still be reviewed for the final production.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1947 Illinois 8mm rural field, 1940s home movie farm landscape, open countryside pan, and vintage ranch homes footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Illinois or 1947 rural exteriors, and then with broader mid-century American countryside material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1947 Illinois 8mm frame showing an open rural field with a distant farm building under a pale sky. — A distant rural building sits beyond a broad open field.

1947 Illinois rural view with rough foreground field, a distant building, and visible 8mm surface wear. — The pan continues across the field toward a low building on the horizon.

1947 Illinois 8mm frame showing open field and distant rural structures, one with a steeple-like roofline. — Distant rural structures come into view as the camera pans across the field.

1947 Illinois rural landscape with a farmhouse-like building and smaller structure beyond the field. — A farmhouse-like building appears near the edge of the pan across the open landscape.

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