Japan-1953: Farmer Tending Rice Paddy Fields

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Farmer Tending Rice Paddy Fields — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a farmer working in a rice paddy in Japan. The footage shows a person in a light shirt and dark pants tending to the flooded fields, with terraced rice plants stretching across the landscape. The image has the characteristic grain and soft focus of Super 8 film, with natural lighting and a muted color palette of greens and purples. The camera appears to be handheld, offering a candid glimpse into rural agricultural life 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: 125230651

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: 1953 Japan 8mm home-movie footage supports documentary or museum requests for rural rice farming and postwar agricultural life.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century wet-field cultivation, with terraced flooded paddies, simple work clothing, and no visible modern machinery.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld view observes a distant farmer at work without staging, giving the scene the candid value of traveler or family-shot footage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include flooded rice paddies, terraced field bands, green vegetation, a distant worker, soft hills or tree cover, and dark film borders.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, muted greens and purples, uneven exposure, and handheld blur give the 8mm scan a clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as an agricultural insert, rural landscape transition, postwar Japan cutaway, or quiet memory beat between broader historical scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually situates rice cultivation within a rural Japanese landscape, but it does not identify the farmer, exact region, or crop stage.
Research note: A person is visible at distance, so copyright review should be handled separately from likeness, privacy, and location-identification considerations.
Research search match: Researcher matches include 1950s Japan rice paddy home movie, 8mm farmer in flooded fields, and rural Japanese agriculture footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then Japan 1953 clips, then wider rice farming, rural labor, and agricultural landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Japan 8mm frame showing a distant farmer in a light shirt near flooded rice paddies and green field bands. — A distant farmer works beside terraced flooded rice fields.

Soft 8mm view of terraced rice paddies in Japan, with flooded field surfaces and blurred vegetation. — Terraced wet fields stretch across the frame in soft focus.

1953 Japan home-movie frame with flooded rice-field water, low terraces, and blurred rural vegetation. — Flooded rice-field terraces pass through the handheld frame.

Soft 8mm frame of layered rice-field terrain in Japan, with muted green and brown vegetation across the landscape. — Layered field bands and vegetation fill the final frame.

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