Japan-1953: Men Planting Rice in Flooded Paddy

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Men Planting Rice in Flooded Paddy — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures two men working in a flooded rice paddy in Japan. One man in a white shirt and dark pants bends over, planting rice seedlings by hand, while another in a light shirt and cap walks through the water. The scene unfolds under natural daylight, with lush green terraced hills in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly soft focus, offering authentic archival footage of traditional Japanese agriculture.

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: 125231664

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 archive requests needing traditional rice agriculture, rural labor, or home-movie cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage may show mid-century rural Japan through hand planting in a flooded paddy, simple work clothing, and terraced green field edges.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged observation of two men moving through water and planting seedlings by hand from a distant home-movie viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two adult men, flooded paddy water, rice seedlings, green field banks, surrounding vegetation, work shirts, dark trousers, and a white cap.
Film character: The clip carries an 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, handheld framing, and uneven exposure around the frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural labor insert, agricultural process cutaway, memory beat, or quiet transition within a sequence about Japan or rice cultivation.
Historical context: The footage visually documents manual rice planting in a flooded field, offering social context for everyday agricultural work without proving a specific village or farm.
Research note: People are visible but not identifiable in detail, so copyright, likeness, location, and any agricultural-use context should be reviewed separately before publication.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1953 Japan 8mm home movie rice paddy, men planting rice by hand, flooded field agriculture, and vintage Japanese rural labor footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Japan 1953 material, then broader 1950s rural agriculture or rice cultivation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1953 Japan footage, two men stand in a flooded paddy as one bends near rice seedlings and the other moves through the water. — Two men work among rice seedlings in a flooded paddy.

Two men in light shirts work separately in a flooded rice paddy in Japan, with green vegetation and field edges in the background. — Workers move through shallow water in a rice field.

In the 1953 Japan home-movie frame, both men bend toward the water as they tend or plant rice seedlings in a flooded paddy. — Both men bend toward the water while tending seedlings.

A man in a cap bends in the flooded rice paddy while another worker stands farther back, framed by green field banks in Japan. — A foreground worker bends in the paddy as another stands behind him.

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