Japan-1953: Terraced Rice Paddies With Reflective Water And Long Yellow Object

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Terraced Rice Paddies With Reflective Water And Long... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this Japanese home movie captures terraced rice paddies under a bright daytime sky. The frames reveal flooded fields with reflective water surfaces and vibrant green rice shoots, bordered by narrow earthen paths. A long, bright yellow object—possibly a tool or marker—appears in the distance, moving slowly across the landscape. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color shifts, and a handheld perspective, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century rural agriculture in Japan.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorHandheld
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125229618

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 1033 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1953
Reel-level location note: japan
Date: 1953 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: Japan 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 1950s Japan editorial sequences needing rural agricultural landscape, flooded rice terraces, or home-movie cutaways of cultivated countryside.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century rice cultivation patterns, with terraced flooded fields, narrow earthen banks, and no visible modern machinery in these frames.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like an amateur traveler or family observer filming from a fixed or slowly shifting overlook rather than a staged agricultural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include terraced paddies, reflective flooded plots, green rice growth, narrow paths, grassy banks, drainage water, and a distant yellow object.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift toward violet-green, dark frame edges, and a handheld home-movie steadiness.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a quiet insert, rural transition, agricultural cutaway, or reflective memory beat within Japan or farming sequences.
Historical context: The frames provide visual context for small-scale terraced wet-field agriculture, while the exact locality and function of the yellow object remain unidentified.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any land or location permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1953 Japan 8mm rice paddies, vintage Japanese agriculture, flooded terraced fields, rural home movie, and reflective water fields.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1953 Japan rural footage, and then with broader agriculture, water-field, or countryside themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Japan 8mm frame showing terraced rice paddies, reflective flooded plots, grassy banks, and a narrow path near the upper edge. — Terraced flooded paddies and green banks seen from an elevated rural viewpoint.

1953 Japan home-movie frame with reflective rice terraces, green shoots, earthen banks, and a pale path crossing the upper field edge. — Flooded terrace plots reflect light between grassy field banks.

1953 Japan 8mm frame showing flooded rice paddies stepped across the landscape with green embankments and water channels below. — Stepped wet fields and grassy banks form a layered rural pattern.

1953 Japan home-movie frame showing flooded terraces, a raised grassy bank, a water channel, and a small yellow object near the field edge. — A small yellow object appears near the edge of the terraced flooded fields.

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