Indiana USA-1948: Man Operating Hand Pump at Well

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationIndiana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1948 Indiana

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Man Operating Hand Pump at Well — Clip Details

INDIANA USA-1948: A man in a light-colored shirt operates a hand pump at a well, with a vintage car visible in the background. The 8mm film footage shows a rural outdoor setting, with the man focused on drawing water. The clip exhibits classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and a faded color palette typical of mid-century home movies. The scene captures a quiet, everyday moment of off-grid life in the late 1940s.

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: 124920436

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

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 2353 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: lillian starost, hospital in claremont, new hampshire,boston traffic,baby,dad,bill
Reel-level year note: 1948
Reel-level location note: indianapolis indiana
Date: 1948 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Indiana, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 Indiana home-movie requests needing everyday water access, hand-pump labor, or domestic outdoor life as documentary cutaway material.
Period detail: The hand pump, soft faded color, and rounded vintage automobile may show late-1940s rural household surroundings, consistent with the supplied Indiana 1948 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage observes an adult casually working a hand pump, giving the scene an unstaged home-movie record of practical outdoor routine.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a hand water pump, an adult in light clothing, a curved pump handle, grass, a vintage car, film gate edges, and heavy surface marks.
Film character: The 8mm scan has faded color, soft focus, visible grain, gate borders, scratches, dust, and uneven exposure that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, rural-life cutaway, transition into off-grid domestic tasks, or quiet memory beat within a mid-century sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually situates water pumping as a small household or rural chore without proving ownership, exact property, or broader local conditions.
Research note: A person is visible and likeness review may be needed; copyright, privacy, and any property issues should be assessed separately from the visible content.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1948 Indiana 8mm hand pump, rural home movie water well, vintage car background, and mid-century off-grid domestic chore.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other Indiana 1948 material, then rural water, farmyard, or mid-century domestic-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Indiana 1948 home-movie footage, an adult stands near a hand water pump with a rounded vintage car behind them. — Adult working near a hand pump, with a vintage car in the background.

An adult in light clothing stands by a hand pump in rural Indiana, with a vintage automobile partly visible behind the pump. — The pump and a vintage car frame the adult figure in the yard.

A closer 8mm view shows the hand pump body and handle while an adult operates it in an outdoor grassy area. — Close view of the hand pump during use.

An adult stands beside the hand pump as the spout and handle dominate the foreground of the faded 8mm frame. — The adult remains beside the pump as the spout fills the foreground.

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