Japan-1953: A Man And Woman Work In A Rice Paddy Field

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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A Man And Woman Work In A Rice Paddy Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage footage captures two farmers working in a rice paddy field in Japan. A man and a woman, both wearing white shirts and hats, bend over in the muddy water, planting or tending to rice seedlings. The scene is bathed in the characteristic purple and green color shifts of aged Super 8 film, with visible grain and soft focus. The natural, handheld camera movement adds to the authentic, nostalgic feel of this archival home movie.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125229692

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 farm labor, rice paddy work, or everyday agricultural life as documentary cutaway material.
Period detail: The white shirts, brimmed hats, hand labor, and flooded paddy setting may show mid-century rural agricultural practice in Japan, consistent with the 1953 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is observational and unstaged, with the camera watching two workers bend, move, and tend plants from a home-movie distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two adults, white shirts, brimmed hats, muddy paddy water, green rice plants, a grassy bank, and soft handheld framing.
Film character: The 8mm image has heavy grain, soft focus, purple-green color shift, uneven exposure, and gate edges that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an insert, rural-life cutaway, agricultural transition, or quiet memory beat within a sequence on Japan or rice cultivation.
Historical context: The clip visually documents manual field work and shared labor in a flooded rice paddy without identifying the workers or a specific locality within Japan.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness and contextual use should be reviewed separately from film copyright, with no logos or brands visible in these frames.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s Japan rice paddy footage, 8mm Japanese farming, rural home movie agriculture, and farmers working in flooded fields.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Japan 1953 rural footage, then broader 1950s agricultural labor or rice cultivation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Japan home-movie frame showing two adults in white shirts and hats working beside muddy paddy water and rice plants. — Two adults work low in a flooded rice paddy, partly obscured by soft focus and film grain.

In a 1953 Japan paddy scene, two adults in hats bend over the field while muddy water fills the background. — The workers continue tending the paddy from opposite sides of the frame.

1953 Japan rural footage shows a worker bending over rice plants with another worker partly visible near the flooded field. — A worker bends into the plants while the second figure is partly cropped near the lower edge.

A late frame from the 1953 Japan home movie shows two adults in hats continuing field work beside flooded rice plants. — Both workers remain in view as they tend the rice paddy in soft, color-shifted 8mm footage.

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