Japan-1953: Farmers Planting Rice Seedlings In Flooded Paddies

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Farmers Planting Rice Seedlings In Flooded Paddies — Clip Details

JAPAN-1953: Farmers work in flooded rice paddies, carefully planting young rice seedlings by hand. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie captures rural agricultural labor in Japan during the mid-20th century. Men in light-colored shirts and hats wade through water, their movements deliberate as they place rows of green shoots into the mud. The terraced fields stretch into the background, surrounded by lush greenery and a golden field in the distance. The footage has a nostalgic, grainy quality with natural color tones, offering authentic archival footage of traditional farming practices.

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: 125231721

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: Archival footage for requests needing 1950s Japan rural agriculture, hand rice planting, or mid-century home-movie views of farm labor.
Period detail: The frames may show 1953 rural Japan through hand-planted flooded paddies, brimmed work hats, light shirts, and small terraced field plots.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged distance of a home-movie camera watching farmers bend, wade, and work methodically in the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include flooded rice paddies, green seedlings, workers in hats, muddy field ridges, surrounding vegetation, and a golden crop field beyond.
Film character: The 8mm color footage has soft focus, visible grain, dark frame edges, uneven exposure, and a handheld observational feel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, rural labor insert, agricultural transition, or quiet memory beat in a Japan or food-production sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents manual rice planting in small flooded fields without identifying the workers, village, or specific region within Japan.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1950s Japan rice planting, 8mm home movie farmers in paddies, flooded rice field labor, and vintage Japanese agriculture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Japan 1953 rural scenes, then broader mid-century Asian agriculture or hand-farming footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1953 Japan, farmers in light clothing and hats bend over in flooded rice paddies bordered by greenery. — Farmers plant rice seedlings by hand in flooded paddy fields.

A farmer in a white hat works by hand in a flooded rice paddy in Japan, with planted rows and vegetation behind. — A farmer tends young rice plants in standing water.

A partly framed worker stands in a flooded paddy while terraced field divisions and young rice plants fill the scene. — The camera catches a worker at the edge of the rice field.

Flooded rice fields in Japan show neat rows of seedlings, earthen paddy borders, and dense vegetation in soft 8mm color. — Flooded paddy plots stretch across the frame after the workers move out of view.

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