Japan-1953: Man Tilling Rice Paddy With Bovine Plow

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Man Tilling Rice Paddy With Bovine Plow — Clip Details

A farmer in a white shirt and dark shorts guides a brown bovine through a muddy rice paddy in Japan, 1953. Shot on 8mm film, the clip captures the man using a traditional wooden plow to till the dark soil, with the animal pulling the implement. The background shows golden rice fields and a distant waterway, under a soft, overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, authentic slice of mid-century rural life. This archival home movie offers a rare glimpse into traditional Japanese agriculture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125290005

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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, manual field labor, or traditional rice paddy cultivation footage.
Period detail: The hand-guided wooden plow, bovine draft animal, muddy paddy, and simple work clothing may show mid-century farming practices in Japan.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a nearby field edge as the farmer and animal move through the paddy, giving the scene an unstaged home-movie quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a farmer, brown bovine, wooden plow, muddy paddy soil, standing water, golden crop rows, grassy banks, and distant trees.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight blur, and handheld framing that give it physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, rural labor insert, agricultural transition, or quiet memory beat within a Japan or farming sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually situates farm work around animal power and wet-field cultivation without proving the farmer's identity, exact village, or crop variety.
Research note: A person is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright status remains separate from depicted rights.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1953 Japan 8mm rice paddy, farmer with bovine plow, traditional agriculture, rural labor, and home-movie farming footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Japan 1953 rural material, then broader archive themes of farming, draft animals, and field labor.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1953 Japan, a farmer appears to guide a brown bovine pulling a wooden plow through a muddy rice paddy. — Farmer and bovine begin moving across a wet, muddy paddy with crop fields behind them.

A farmer in Japan guides a wooden plow behind a brown bovine across a waterlogged paddy field. — The bovine pulls the plow while the farmer follows through the mud.

The brown draft animal moves left across the paddy as the farmer follows, holding the long wooden plow. — A close view shows the animal and plow cutting through dark, wet soil.

A farmer in a white shirt and dark shorts steers the plow while the bovine crosses the muddy Japanese paddy. — The farmer steadies the plow as the animal advances across the waterlogged field.

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