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 man in a white shirt and dark shorts guides a wooden plow pulled by a brown bovine through a muddy rice paddy in Japan, 1953. The 8mm home movie captures traditional farming methods under a bright sky, with golden fields and distant figures in the background. The footage shows natural film grain and slight camera shake, conveying a nostalgic, authentic slice of rural life. The scene transitions to a wider view of harvested fields and utility poles, emphasizing the agricultural landscape 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: 125290015

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 documentary sequences needing rural agriculture, rice paddy labor, or traditional animal-drawn plowing as archival home-movie evidence.
Period detail: The visible hand-guided wooden plow, muddy paddy, open fields, and utility poles may show mid-century rural farming conditions in Japan.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld camera observes farm work from a distance, preserving an unstaged view of a man guiding a bovine through wet field rows.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a white shirt, a brown bovine, a wooden plow, muddy rice paddy water, golden fields, distant workers, shrubs, and utility poles.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, modest color shift, and slight handheld movement that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, rural establishing detail, agricultural transition, or memory beat within a Japan or farming sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually situates manual and animal-assisted field work within a cultivated landscape, without identifying a specific farm, village, or event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private interiors are apparent, and copyright status remains separate from depicted rights.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1953 Japan 8mm rice paddy farming, bovine plow home movie, rural Japanese agriculture, and vintage field work footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel rural Japan scenes, then with Japan 1953 field footage, then with broader traditional farming or rice harvest material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Japan in 1953, a man in a white shirt walks behind a bovine pulling a wooden plow through a wet rice paddy. — A man works a bovine-drawn plow through a muddy paddy field.

The man guides the wooden plow while the brown bovine moves across the muddy rice paddy, with fields and distant figures behind them. — The plowing team moves laterally across the flooded field.

A wider 1953 Japan field view shows a pale bovine near shrubs, harvested-looking crops, distant haystacks, and utility poles. — The scene widens to fields with a bovine, shrubs, and utility poles.

A wide rural landscape in Japan in 1953 shows cultivated fields, green shrubs, distant stacks, utility poles, and a hazy tree line. — Open agricultural fields stretch toward utility poles and a hazy horizon.

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