Japan-1953: Man Planting Rice in Terraced Paddy Fields

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Man Planting Rice in Terraced Paddy Fields — Clip Details

A man in a white shirt and dark pants works barefoot in a flooded rice paddy in Japan, 1953. Shot on 8mm film, the footage shows him bent over, planting rice seedlings by hand in the muddy water. Terraced fields stretch into the background, with a golden wheat field and a winding dirt path visible. The image has a soft, nostalgic quality with natural colors and visible film grain, capturing traditional agricultural 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: 125231774

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 requests needing rural agriculture, hand rice planting, terraced fields, or traditional labor as documentary B-roll or educational context.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage and hand planting in flooded paddies support the 1953 metadata, with clothing, terraced fields, and rural paths visible as period context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distance as the worker bends and plants seedlings, giving the scene an unstaged home-movie view of everyday agricultural labor.
What appears in frame: A lone worker in a white shirt, flooded rice rows, muddy paddy edges, green terraces, a golden field, and a winding rural path are visible.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, slight gate edges, muted color, and minor exposure variation give the 8mm scan a tangible mid-century home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural-life insert, agricultural cutaway, transition between Japan travel scenes, or quiet memory beat about manual work.
Historical context: The clip visually documents hand labor in wet rice fields and terraced rural land without asserting a specific farm, region, or named community.
Research note: One distant person is visible, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos or obvious private interiors appear, and copyright status is separate from depicted rights.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s Japan 8mm rice paddy footage, man planting rice, terraced agriculture, rural Japanese farming, and home movie field work.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1953 Japan rural scenes, then broader rice farming or manual agriculture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1953 Japan, a distant worker in a white shirt bends over in a flooded rice paddy below green terraces and a winding path. — Worker bending over in a terraced rice paddy, with fields and a rural path in the background.

A worker appears to plant rice by hand in a flooded Japanese paddy, with young rows, green growth, and a pale rural path beyond. — Distant worker planting in a flooded paddy bordered by terraces and vegetation.

The 1953 Japan footage shows a man working low in a wet rice paddy, with planted rows in the foreground and a golden field behind. — Man working in a wet rice paddy, framed by planted rows and terraced rural fields.

A distant worker continues hand planting in a flooded rice paddy in Japan, with terraces, seedlings, and a winding path visible in soft 8mm color. — Worker bent over in the paddy as terraces and a rural path fill the background.

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