Japan-1953: Farmers Harvesting Rice By Hand In Rural Field

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Farmers Harvesting Rice By Hand In Rural Field — Clip Details

JAPAN-1953: Farmers harvest rice in a rural field, gathering stalks into large bundles. Workers in traditional clothing bend and carry heavy bales across the harvested land. The scene captures manual labor in a golden-hued agricultural landscape, with distant trees and utility poles under an overcast sky. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage footage shows natural grain and color fading, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 125290031

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: 1950s Japan rural agriculture footage for editors needing manual rice-harvest labor, field work, or traditional farming inserts.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century rural Japan through hand gathering, bundled stalks, simple work clothing, open fields, distant trees, and utility poles.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the observed, unstaged work rhythm as farmers bend, gather, and carry heavy bundles across the field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include cut rows, standing workers, large straw bundles, open farmland, distant tree lines, utility poles, and hazy sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing that support its home-movie archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, rural labor insert, agricultural transition, or memory beat within a Japan or farming sequence.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for manual crop handling and rural field labor without proving a specific farm, region, or event beyond the supplied Japan 1953 metadata.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1953 Japan rice harvest, 8mm rural farming, Japanese farmers by hand, vintage agriculture field work, and home movie harvest footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Japan 1953 rural material, then broader 1950s agriculture and manual labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Japan 1953 footage, two farmers bend over cut rows while gathering rice or straw bundles in an open rural field. — Two distant workers gather bundles across a harvested field.

A rural Japan field scene shows one worker bending near cut rows while another handles a large crop bundle. — Workers continue hand gathering and carrying crop bundles.

In the 1953 Japan harvest footage, one farmer bends low while another carries a heavy bundle across the rural field. — One worker bends near the crop while another carries a large bundle.

A distant farmer in Japan 1953 footage carries a large rice or straw bundle through an open harvested field. — A worker carries a large bundle away from the harvested rows.

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