Japan-1953: Man Planting Rice and Driving a Wagon

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Man Planting Rice and Driving a Wagon — Clip Details

JAPAN-1953: A man in a straw hat drives a rustic wooden wagon along a gravel path bordered by dense green trees, captured on 8mm film with natural grain and soft color. The scene shifts to a flooded rice paddy where another man in a white shirt and dark pants bends over, planting rice seedlings by hand in the muddy water. The footage shows authentic rural life in mid-century Japan, with natural lighting and the characteristic look of vintage home movie film.

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: 125231653

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: 1950s Japan rural-life footage for documentary or museum edits needing hand rice planting and simple wagon transport in an archival home-movie source.
Period detail: The straw hat, wooden wagon, gravel path, hand planting, flooded paddy, and soft 8mm color support a mid-century rural Japan reading without identifying a specific village.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes everyday labor from a quiet visitor perspective, holding on a wagon passing a tree-lined path and a worker bending repeatedly in the rice paddy.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wooden wagon, straw hat, gravel road, dense greenery, flooded rice paddy, rice seedlings, muddy water, and men working outdoors.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, saturated greens, and slight handheld framing that give the clip clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural Japan insert, agricultural labor cutaway, travel-memory transition, or brief establishing beat for mid-century everyday work.
Historical context: The clip visually documents manual rice planting and local transport as seen by a home-movie camera, but it does not by itself identify community, farm, or worker names.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos, children, audible music, or clear private property are apparent, and copyright should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1953 Japan 8mm rice planting, vintage Japanese rice paddy worker, rural Japan home movie wagon, and mid-century agriculture footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Japan 1953 rural scenes, then broader archival clips of rice farming, wagons, and hand labor.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Japan 8mm frame showing a man in a straw hat guiding a rustic wooden wagon on a tree-lined gravel path. — A man guides a wooden wagon along a rural gravel path bordered by dense greenery.

1953 Japan 8mm frame of a man in a white shirt bending to plant seedlings by hand in a flooded rice paddy. — A worker bends over in a flooded paddy while planting or tending rice seedlings by hand.

1953 Japan 8mm frame showing a worker bent over in a flooded rice field, tending rows of young rice plants. — The camera holds on manual rice planting in a shallow, water-filled field.

1953 Japan 8mm frame of a man planting or tending rice seedlings in muddy water, with dense green growth beyond the paddy. — A man continues working by hand among young rice plants in the flooded paddy.

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