Japan-1953: Farmer Plowing Rice Paddy With Ox Power

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Farmer Plowing Rice Paddy With Ox Power — Clip Details

A farmer guides an ox-drawn plow through a muddy rice paddy in Japan, 1953. The man, wearing a light shirt and dark pants, steers the wooden plow as the ox pulls it through the wet earth. The scene unfolds in a rural landscape with flooded fields and distant golden harvests under a hazy sky. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the labor-intensive agricultural practices of mid-century Japan with authentic grain and color saturation.

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: 125290009

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Japan documentary requests needing rural agriculture, rice-paddy labor, ox power, or pre-mechanized farm work as authentic 8mm home-movie material.
Period detail: The light clothing, wooden plow, ox harness, flooded paddy, and 8mm color home-movie texture support a mid-century rural Japan reading consistent with the 1953 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a fixed nearby position as the farmer and ox pass through the field, giving the scene an unstaged record of daily agricultural work.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a farmer, ox, wooden plow, muddy paddy ridge, flooded rice field, grassy bank, distant fields, and hazy rural horizon.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm grain, saturated but uneven color, mild gate shadowing, and a steady home-movie viewpoint that preserves the physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, rural labor cutaway, agricultural transition, or memory beat within sequences on farming, Japan, or postwar daily life.
Historical context: The footage visually documents animal-powered paddy work and human labor in a rural landscape without supporting broader claims about region, crop cycle, or farm ownership.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance should be assessed separately from depicted-person rights.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1953 Japan 8mm rice paddy plowing, ox-drawn farm work, rural Japanese agriculture, farmer with wooden plow, and home-movie field labor.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Japan 1953 rural or agricultural scenes, then broader 1950s farming, rice cultivation, and animal-powered labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Japan, 1953, a farmer in a light shirt steers a wooden plow behind an ox in a wet rice paddy. — Farmer and ox move through the muddy edge of a flooded paddy.

A farmer follows an ox-drawn wooden plow across a muddy rice paddy in rural Japan, 1953. — The ox pulls forward as the farmer controls the plow handles.

The farmer appears to adjust the ox and plow at the muddy edge of a flooded paddy in Japan, 1953. — Farmer shifts position as the ox turns through the paddy mud.

A farmer holds the wooden plow as the ox moves along the muddy paddy border in Japan, 1953. — The plow line continues along the wet paddy with flooded fields behind.

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