Japan-1953: Person Wearing White Shirt Works In Rice Paddy Field On A Clear Day

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Person Wearing White Shirt Works In Rice Paddy Field On... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a farmer in a white shirt working in a terraced rice paddy field in Japan. The scene unfolds under a clear sky, with water reflecting the light across the flooded tiers. A figure moves methodically through the paddies, tending to the young rice plants. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic slice of mid-century rural life offers rich visual texture for historical, agricultural, or cultural storytelling.

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: 125231724

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: 1950s Japan home-movie footage suited to documentary or educational requests for rural agriculture, rice cultivation, and everyday field labor.
Period detail: The flooded terraced paddies, narrow earthen paths, and distant worker may show mid-century rural farming practice in Japan, consistent with the 1953 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip observes a distant person working steadily along a paddy edge, giving an unstaged view of routine agricultural labor.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include flooded rice paddies, terraced banks, young rice plants, a grassy field edge, a small worker in a white shirt, and soft rural greenery.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, mild color shift, rounded frame edges, and slight exposure variation that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief agricultural cutaway, rural transition, memory beat, or contextual insert for mid-century Japan.
Historical context: The footage visually situates rice cultivation within a small terraced landscape without identifying a specific region, farm, or individual.
Research note: A person is visible at a distance, so copyright, likeness, and contextual use should be reviewed separately before publication.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s Japan rice paddy, 8mm rural agriculture, farmer in flooded field, and Japanese home movie farming footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1953 Japan rural footage, then broader clips of rice farming, field labor, and terraced landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Japan 8mm frame showing flooded terraced rice paddies with earthen borders and soft rural vegetation. — Terraced rice paddies filled with water, seen from a home-movie vantage point.

1953 Japan 8mm frame of water-filled rice paddy tiers, dark earthen paths, and vegetation in the background. — Water reflects across the flooded paddy tiers and narrow field banks.

1953 Japan 8mm frame showing a distant worker in a white shirt beside terraced flooded rice paddies. — A distant worker stands along the paddy edge above the flooded terraces.

1953 Japan 8mm frame with a distant person bending along a terraced rice paddy bordered by water and greenery. — The worker bends near the paddy edge as the flooded terraces fill the foreground.

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