Japan-1953: Terraced Rice Paddy Fields On A Clear Day

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Terraced Rice Paddy Fields On A Clear Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of terraced rice paddy fields in Japan. The camera pans slowly across the landscape, revealing flooded paddies reflecting the sky and vibrant green rice shoots in neat rows. The footage shows classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and natural light on a clear day, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century rural agriculture. The perspective suggests a view from a window or elevated position, with subtle frame lines visible. This archival clip evokes a peaceful, timeless atmosphere of traditional farming life.

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: 125229646

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: 1950s Japan agricultural home-movie footage for documentary inserts about rural landscapes, rice cultivation, travel memory, or postwar everyday environments.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century terraced rice paddies, with flooded fields and planted rows seen from an elevated or window-like vantage point.
Home-movie behavior: The slow observational framing suggests a traveler or resident filming the patterned fields as a quiet landscape record rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include flooded paddy plots, green rice shoots, earthen field borders, reflective water surfaces, hillside vegetation, and dark frame-edge obstructions.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild color shift toward violet-green tones, and gate or contact-sheet borders that reinforce its physical-film origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing insert, reflective transition, agricultural cutaway, or memory beat within a Japan travel or food-production sequence.
Historical context: The footage provides visual context for terraced wet-rice agriculture and landscape observation in Japan without identifying a specific farm, region, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious brands are visible, but copyright, location, and property-context review should remain separate from likeness clearance.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1953 Japan rice paddy footage, 8mm terraced fields, vintage Japanese agriculture, flooded rice fields, and rural home movie landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Japan 1953 travel material, then with broader archival themes of rice farming, rural landscapes, and agriculture.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Japan 8mm frame showing terraced flooded rice paddies with green rice shoots, earthen borders, and reflective water. — Elevated view across terraced rice paddies with water-filled plots and planted green rows.

1953 Japan 8mm view of patterned rice paddies, showing reflective flooded plots and strips of young green rice plants. — Patterned paddy fields form rectangular flooded sections divided by narrow borders.

1953 Japan home-movie frame of flooded terraced rice fields, green planted rows, and a darker vegetated slope at the right edge. — Terraced paddies and young rice rows appear beside a darker vegetated edge.

1953 Japan 8mm frame showing reflective rice paddies, planted green rows, earthen borders, and hillside vegetation at right. — Water-filled rice paddies reflect light while planted rows and hillside vegetation define the scene.

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