Japan-1953: Wide Angle View of Farmer Harvesting Crops in Rice Paddy

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Wide Angle View of Farmer Harvesting Crops in Rice Paddy — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage footage captures a farmer in a light-colored shirt and dark overalls harvesting crops in a golden rice paddy in Japan. The wide-angle view shows terraced fields under a soft, overcast sky, with the worker bending and pulling stalks by hand. The grainy texture and faded colors of the Super 8 home movie evoke a nostalgic, authentic slice of mid-century rural life. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse into traditional Japanese agriculture during the post-war era.

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: 125230058

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 documentary edits needing rural agriculture, hand-harvesting, rice paddy labor, or postwar home-movie countryside atmosphere.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century rural field work, with hand labor, terraced-looking paddies, and muted 8mm color supporting the 1953 Japan metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The distant, steady home-movie view observes a single worker bending into the crop without posing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a worker in a light shirt and dark trousers, golden crop rows, dark tilled soil, distant field bands, vertical poles, and soft hills or tree cover.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, visible grain, faded color, and slight frame instability consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural labor cutaway, agricultural transition, memory beat, or establishing insert for Japanese countryside material.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for manual crop harvesting in a Japanese rural landscape, without identifying the worker, farm, or exact region.
Research note: A person is visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed even though no logos, music, or clear private property are visible in the supplied frames.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1953 Japan 8mm rice paddy harvest, Japanese farmer home movie, rural agriculture footage, and hand harvesting crops.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Japan footage, then other 1953 Japan rural scenes, then broader 1950s agriculture and hand-labor harvest clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Japan 8mm frame showing a distant farmer bending near golden crop rows and dark tilled soil. — A distant worker bends near a harvested edge of a golden field.

Distant farmer in a light shirt works by hand along a golden field in rural Japan footage from 1953. — The worker leans into the crop row with layered fields behind.

Wide 8mm view of a worker bending beside tall golden crops and dark foreground soil in Japan, 1953. — A lone field worker bends at the boundary between tilled ground and standing crop.

1953 Japan home-movie frame with a distant farmer harvesting near golden crops and layered paddy fields. — The farmer remains bent over in a wide view of crop rows and surrounding fields.

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