Japan-1953: Person in White Shirt Working in Rice Paddy

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Person in White Shirt Working in Rice Paddy — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from Japan in 1953 captures a serene rural landscape. The footage opens on a wide, sun-drenched field of golden crops under a pale blue sky, with a distant treeline. As the camera moves forward, a lone figure in a white shirt appears in the distance, working amidst the tall stalks. The grainy texture and color shifts typical of 8mm film lend a nostalgic, authentic feel to this archival agricultural scene.

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: 125230033

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 agricultural requests needing rural field labor, rice cultivation atmosphere, or a brief documentary cutaway from color 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century rural Japan through color 8mm stock, open cultivated fields, distant treelines, and a lone worker in a light shirt.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distance with no staging apparent, giving the clip value as casual home-movie documentation of work in a field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include golden field grasses, a distant worker in a white shirt, low treelines, pale sky, handheld framing, and soft 8mm color shifts.
Film character: The clip has visible grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and blue-green color bias consistent with aged 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural insert, agricultural transition, or quiet memory beat within a sequence about postwar-era Japan or traditional field work.
Historical context: The footage visually places agricultural labor within a broad rural landscape without identifying the person, crop variety, village, or land ownership.
Research note: A person is visible at distance, so likeness review may be needed even though no logos, private interiors, or identifiable brands are visible in the frames.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950s Japan rice paddy worker, vintage 8mm rural agriculture, Japanese home movie field labor, and color archive farm footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Japan 1953 rural scenes, then broader 1950s agriculture and rice-field labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Japan home-movie frame showing a broad cultivated field under pale sky with trees along the horizon. — Wide rural field with tall crops and a distant treeline.

Color 8mm frame from Japan in 1953 showing golden field grasses and a wooded edge in the distance. — Golden field grasses stretch toward a wooded horizon.

1953 Japan rural field scene with a distant person in a light shirt partly visible among tall crops. — A distant worker appears among the tall field crops.

Color 8mm home-movie frame from Japan in 1953 showing a distant field worker in a white shirt amid tall crops. — A lone figure works in the field near the distant treeline.

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