Japan-1953: Terraced Rice Paddies With Utility Poles And Water Fields

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Terraced Rice Paddies With Utility Poles And Water Fields — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage Japanese home movie captures a sweeping view of terraced rice paddies stretching across a rural landscape. The footage shows water-filled fields reflecting a soft purple-tinged sky, with utility poles and wires cutting across the frame. The camera pans slowly, revealing the intricate patterns of the farmland and a small wooden structure nestled among the fields. The image exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of mid-century rural Japan.

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: 125229630

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 documentary or museum sequences needing 1950s rural Japan landscape footage, especially agricultural establishing shots or archive transitions.
Period detail: The terraced water fields, wooden field structure, and simple roadside utility poles may show mid-century rural infrastructure in Japan.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a traveler or resident's unstaged home-movie view, observing farmland from a distance without performers or staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include terraced rice paddies, reflective water plots, green field edges, utility poles, overhead wires, a small wooden structure, and distant roads or embankments.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, purple-blue color shift, mild blur, and handheld panning that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing insert, quiet transition, agricultural cutaway, or memory beat within a Japan travel or farming sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents cultivated terraced fields and utility lines in a rural Japanese landscape without identifying a specific town or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location-specific concerns should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1953 Japan 8mm rice paddies, rural Japanese farmland, terraced fields, water fields, utility poles, and vintage home movie landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Japan 1953 rural views, then broader mid-century agriculture or rice-field footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Japan 8mm frame showing terraced rice paddies, water-filled plots, green field edges, and utility poles across a rural landscape. — Terraced rice fields and utility lines stretch across the rural landscape.

1953 Japan home-movie frame with reflective rice paddies, utility pole, wires, and a small rural structure below the fields. — Reflective paddies and a utility pole appear during the slow pan.

1953 Japan 8mm view of a utility pole in front of terraced rice paddies, water plots, green embankments, and a small field structure. — A pole and wires cut across the patterned rice-field terraces.

1953 Japan rural landscape frame showing layered rice paddies, reflective water fields, green banks, and utility wires during a pan. — Layered water fields form a patterned rural landscape near the end of the pan.

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