Japan-1953: Men Planting Rice Seedlings in Terraced Fields

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Men Planting Rice Seedlings in Terraced Fields — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage Japanese home movie captures two men planting rice seedlings in flooded terraced fields. Dressed in simple white shirts and dark trousers, they work barefoot in the soggy soil, bending rhythmically as they transplant the young green shoots. The lush green landscape and traditional farming methods evoke a sense of rural life and agricultural tradition. The footage, with its characteristic film grain and color palette, offers authentic archival material for documentaries, historical content, and nostalgic storytelling.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: 125231757

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Japanese 8mm home-movie footage suited to documentary or educational requests for traditional rice planting, rural labor, and agricultural landscape cutaways.
Period detail: The hand planting, simple work clothing, flooded terraces, and 8mm color stock support a 1953 rural Japan setting without identifying a more specific place.
Home-movie behavior: The clip observes two men working at a distance, giving unstaged home-movie value through practical movement rather than posed performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include flooded rice paddies, young seedlings in rows, two men bending to plant, muddy banks, dense green vegetation, and a pale field beyond the terrace.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and a handheld home-movie viewpoint that add physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an agricultural insert, rural-life cutaway, seasonal labor transition, or quiet memory beat within a Japan or food-production sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually documents manual rice transplanting in terraced wet fields, showing agricultural labor and landscape rather than mechanized production.
Research note: People are visible but not identifiable in detail, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos or obvious private property are visible, and copyright clearance is separate.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1953 Japan 8mm rice planting, Japanese home movie farming, flooded paddy field labor, and vintage rural agriculture footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Japan 1953 rural footage, then with broader archival themes of rice farming, hand planting, and food cultivation.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Japan home-movie frame showing two men transplanting rice seedlings by hand in flooded terraced paddies. — Two men work barefoot in wet paddy fields, placing young rice plants in rows.

Two men continue hand planting rice seedlings in a flooded paddy, filmed from a distant 8mm home-movie viewpoint in Japan. — Workers bend into the waterlogged field as rows of seedlings extend across the terrace.

A distant worker bends over a muddy terrace beside flooded rice rows, with a pale field and greenery behind him. — One worker is seen low to the ground along the muddy edge of the paddy.

A lone worker crouches along a wet paddy terrace in rural Japan, framed by flooded rice rows and surrounding vegetation. — The worker remains near the paddy bank as water, seedlings, and fields fill the frame.

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