Japan-1953: A Child Walking Through A Rice Paddy With Strange Purple Water

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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A Child Walking Through A Rice Paddy With Strange Purple... — Clip Details

A child in a white shirt and cap walks through a muddy rice paddy in Japan, 1953. The water reflects a strange purple and black hue, likely due to film degradation or chemical effects. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie captures a quiet rural moment with natural grain and soft focus. The child moves slowly, surrounded by green vegetation and the textured surface of the flooded field. The scene evokes nostalgia and offers authentic archival footage of mid-century Japanese agriculture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125229683

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 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 archival requests needing rural agriculture, rice-paddy labor, or quiet home-movie atmosphere as editorial texture.
Period detail: The clothing, 8mm format, and rural flooded field may show a mid-century Japanese farming setting, with the 1953 date supported by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes an unstaged child or young person from behind while they move slowly along the edge of a muddy paddy.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white-capped figure, flooded mud, dark clumps of soil or stones, green bank vegetation, soft focus, and dark film borders.
Film character: The footage has 8mm grain, soft handheld framing, uneven exposure, and purple-black color shifts that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural insert, contemplative transition, or memory beat within a sequence about postwar Japan or agricultural life.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for small-scale rural work or movement through a flooded field without proving a specific crop, village, or event.
Research note: A person is visible from behind, likely a child or young person, so likeness and age review may be needed separately from copyright research.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1953 Japan home movie, 8mm rice paddy, rural Japanese agriculture, child walking in flooded field, and purple faded film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Japan 1953 rural footage, then broader home-movie scenes of farming and paddies.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Japan, 1953, a child or young person in a white cap moves near a purple-toned flooded rice paddy. — A white-capped figure walks along the muddy edge of a flooded field.

A rear view of a white-capped child or young person beside a flooded paddy in 1953 Japan, with strong purple film cast. — The figure pauses or steps near the waterlogged field surface.

The home-movie frame shows a child or young person at the edge of a Japanese paddy, with grain and soft focus. — A rear-facing figure stands close to vegetation at the paddy margin.

A 1953 Japan home-movie frame shows the figure near reeds and dark clumps across a flooded paddy. — The figure remains near the paddy edge as the textured water fills the frame.

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