Japan-1953: Person Wearing White Shirt Places Yellow Bale Of Hay On Ground In Rural Field

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Person Wearing White Shirt Places Yellow Bale Of Hay On... — Clip Details

A person in a white shirt and dark pants bends over in a rural field, placing a yellow bale of hay on the ground. The scene unfolds in a quiet Japanese countryside, with a vast harvested field stretching into the distance under an overcast sky. Trees and utility poles line the horizon, and a small building is visible in the background. Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a moment of agricultural labor with authentic grain and color degradation, evoking a sense of nostalgia and rural life.

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: 125229979

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful 1950s Japan 8mm footage for productions needing a brief rural labor cutaway or agricultural field insert.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century rural Japan through harvested fields, utility poles, distant trees, and a small background structure.
Home-movie behavior: The home-movie value comes from an unstaged figure bending and working in the field rather than posing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white-shirted person, yellow hay or straw bale, harvested field, green crop strip, utility poles, trees, and a distant building.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, and a steady but amateur long-lens home-movie feel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, rural transition, or quiet memory beat within a Japan, farming, or postwar countryside sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for small-scale field work and rural landscape patterns without identifying the worker or exact locality.
Research note: A person is visible at distance, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s Japan 8mm rural farming footage, countryside field labor, hay or straw handling, and vintage home movie agriculture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Japan material, then other 1953 Japan countryside clips, then broader rural farming and field labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1953 Japan footage, a distant person in a white shirt works near a yellow hay bale in a harvested field. — A distant field worker bends near hay or straw in a rural landscape.

A distant worker bends over hay or straw in a Japanese rural field, with utility poles and trees on the horizon. — The figure continues bending over the hay or straw bale in the field.

The 8mm frame shows a distant person working low in a harvested field in rural Japan, with poles and trees beyond. — A small figure works low in the foreground field as trees and utility poles line the distance.

A distant person in a white shirt bends near a hay or straw bale in a 1953 Japan countryside field scene. — The worker remains near the hay or straw bale at the edge of the field.

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