Japan-1953: Rice Harvesting Farmers Working in Field

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Rice Harvesting Farmers Working in Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a group of Japanese farm workers harvesting rice in a rural field. Men and women in traditional work attire, including wide-brimmed hats, use wooden tools to thresh and bundle the crop under an overcast sky. The scene unfolds in a lush green field with distant power lines and farmland visible, showcasing authentic agricultural labor from mid-20th century Japan. The footage exhibits natural film grain and slight color fading, preserving a nostalgic, documentary-style record of daily life and rural industry.

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: 125289991

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Japan 8mm rural labor footage suited for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing rice harvest work in a field.
Period detail: The clothing, hand tools, open fields, and utility poles may show mid-century rural agricultural practice, consistent with the supplied 1953 Japan metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes workers from a fixed home-movie distance as they bend, lift, and gather rice straw without staged performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include farm workers, wide-brimmed hats, bundled straw, green field rows, distant farmland, utility poles, and hazy sky.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight fading, frame-edge marks, and mild handheld or scan instability that support its archival home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transition, or memory beat for rural work, food production, or postwar-era daily life themes.
Historical context: The footage provides visual context for collective manual farm work in Japan, while avoiding claims beyond the visible rice-field activity and supplied date.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness and contextual review may be needed even if no brands, music, or private property are evident in the frames.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1953 Japan rice harvest, vintage 8mm Japanese farming, rural field workers, and mid-century home movie agriculture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Japan 1953 rural footage, then broader 1950s farming and harvest material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Japan home-movie frame showing several farm workers using hand tools around piles of rice straw in an open field. — Workers gather and thresh rice straw in a rural field.

1953 Japan rural harvest scene with men and women working by hand around loose rice straw under a pale sky. — Farm workers continue hand-harvesting and gathering straw.

1953 Japan 8mm frame showing workers in hats and work clothes handling rice straw beside green field rows. — A group works around straw piles during the harvest.

1953 Japan home-movie frame of rural workers spread across a rice field, bending and lifting straw by hand. — Workers bend and lift straw near the end of the shot.

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