Japan-1953: Farmer Working In Rice Paddy With Terraced Fields

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Farmer Working In Rice Paddy With Terraced Fields — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage Japanese home movie captures a farmer working in a muddy rice paddy, bending over to plant seedlings. The terraced fields display vibrant green and golden-yellow crops under natural light, with a winding dirt path visible in the background. The footage shows a woman in traditional attire standing near dried straw mats and a rustic hut, illustrating rural agricultural life. The grainy texture and color palette of the Super 8 film evoke a nostalgic, authentic slice of mid-century Japan.

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: 125231795

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 archive requests needing rural agriculture, rice paddy labor, terraced fields, or village farming cutaways from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century rural Japan through hand-planted rice fields, straw drying areas, simple work clothing, and a visitor-shot view of terraced farmland.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged observation of a worker bent over in the paddy and a woman standing near straw, filmed from a home-movie distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include muddy rice paddies, planted seedlings, green terraces, yellow crop patches, a winding dirt path, straw mats, a rustic shed area, and two adults.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft grain, muted color, slight gate edges, and handheld framing that support its period home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an agricultural insert, rural-life cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into a sequence on food production or village labor.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for small-scale rice cultivation and rural field work in Japan without identifying a specific village, farm, or named individuals.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright, privacy, and location permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1953 Japan 8mm rice paddy footage, 1950s Japanese farming home movie, terraced fields, rural agriculture, and rice planting.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Japan 1953 rural footage, then broader 1950s agriculture, rice cultivation, and village-life clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Japan home-movie frame of a worker bent over in a muddy rice paddy below green terraces and a pale dirt path. — A worker bends over in a muddy rice paddy beneath terraced fields and a winding path.

Archival 1953 Japan frame showing a small figure working in wet rice fields, with terraced crops and a curving path in the background. — A field worker continues low, close work in the paddy while terraces rise behind the plot.

1950s Japan home-movie view of a farmer bent over in a muddy paddy, with planted rows and terraced crops visible around the field. — The worker stays bent over in the paddy, surrounded by wet rows and terraced farmland.

1953 Japan home-movie frame of a woman standing near laid-out straw mats, stacked straw, vegetation, and a simple rural structure. — A woman stands at the edge of a straw drying area beside stacked straw and rustic farm materials.

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