Japan-1953: Farmers Planting Rice in Paddy

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Farmers Planting Rice in Paddy — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage footage captures two farmers planting rice in a flooded paddy field in Japan. Dressed in simple white shirts and dark trousers, they wade through the muddy water, carefully placing young rice seedlings into neat rows. The lush green terraced hills rise in the background, emphasizing the traditional agricultural landscape. The film exhibits natural grain and slight color fading, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. This authentic archival clip offers a glimpse into mid-20th century rural Japanese farming life.

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: 125231704

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, rice cultivation, or traditional farm labor footage from an 8mm home-movie source.
Period detail: The clothing, hand planting method, terraced wet paddy, and 8mm color look support a mid-20th-century rural Japan reading, with the 1953 date supplied by metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes workers from a distance as they bend, wade, and plant seedlings, giving the clip an unstaged home-movie record of everyday field labor.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two farmers, flooded rice rows, bundled seedlings, muddy water, terraced field edges, green hillside vegetation, and soft 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, uneven exposure, and slight handheld instability that read as authentic 8mm archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural life insert, agricultural cutaway, transition into food or labor history, or quiet memory beat in a Japan sequence.
Historical context: The footage shows manual rice planting in a flooded paddy, offering visual context for small-scale agricultural work without identifying the individuals or exact site.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness and contextual use should be reviewed separately from copyright; no logos, minors, or private interiors are apparent.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1953 Japan 8mm rice planting, vintage Japanese paddy field, rural farming home movie, and midcentury agriculture footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Japan 1953 rural scenes, then broader rice farming, field labor, or traditional agriculture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two farmers in 1953 Japan appear to plant rice seedlings in a flooded terraced paddy field. — Two workers wade through muddy water while planting rice seedlings in rows.

In a rural Japan paddy, two farmers continue hand planting seedlings in shallow muddy water. — The workers move separately across the flooded field as seedlings form rows.

Two farmers bend over in a flooded Japanese rice paddy, placing seedlings into the waterlogged soil. — Both workers bend low over the paddy while planting young rice plants by hand.

The closing frame shows rice seedlings spread across the flooded paddy as two farmers continue hand planting. — Seedlings fill more of the paddy as the farmers continue planting across the field.

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