Japan-1953: Planting Rice Seedlings In Flooded Paddy Field

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Planting Rice Seedlings In Flooded Paddy Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures two farmers planting rice seedlings in a flooded paddy field in Japan. One worker in a white shirt and dark pants bends deeply in the water, carefully placing young rice plants in neat rows. A second farmer joins later, also working waist-deep in the muddy water. The lush green landscape and traditional agricultural method evoke a sense of rural life and historical farming practices. The footage shows natural film grain and color fading typical of mid-century Super 8 home movies.

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: 125231660

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 for 1950s Japan editorial requests needing rural agriculture, hand planting, rice cultivation, or mid-century home-movie views of farm labor.
Period detail: The footage may show 1950s rural rice planting, with workers bent over in a flooded paddy and no visible machinery in the sampled frames.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the observational home-movie distance, watching farmers repeat careful hand movements without staged posing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include flooded paddy water, rows of young rice seedlings, one or two bent workers, green field margins, and soft 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The clip has saturated green color, visible grain, slight softness, gate shadows, and the uneven exposure typical of scanned mid-century 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, rural-life cutaway, agricultural process beat, or transition into a sequence about food production or postwar-era daily life.
Historical context: The frames document hand planting in a wet rice field, offering visual context for rural labor and crop cultivation without identifying the specific farm or community.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos, music, or private interiors are apparent, and copyright clearance remains separate.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1953 Japan 8mm rice planting, vintage home movie paddy field, farmers planting seedlings, and rural Japanese agriculture footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Japan 1953 rural footage, then broader 1950s farming, rice cultivation, and hand labor sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Japan home-movie frame showing a worker bent over in a flooded rice paddy, placing seedlings near green field margins. — A farmer bends over rows of young rice plants in a flooded paddy field.

A distant worker in a white shirt and dark pants plants rice seedlings by hand in a flooded paddy in Japan, 1953. — The worker places seedlings into the wet field in a repeating hand-planting motion.

Distant 8mm frame of a worker bent deeply over young rice plants in a flooded Japanese paddy, with dense greenery beyond. — A farmer works close to the waterline among planted rows of rice seedlings.

1953 Japan frame with one worker bent over rice seedlings and a second worker partly visible at the right edge of the flooded field. — A second worker appears at the field edge while planting continues in the paddy.

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