Minnesota USA-1961: Rural Road Through Autumn Forest and National Threshing Bee Sign

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Minnesota

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Rural Road Through Autumn Forest and National Threshing... — Clip Details

MINNESOTA USA-1961: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a rural autumn landscape with a winding dirt road cutting through a dense forest of green, yellow, and brown trees. The footage transitions to a close-up of a yellow and white sign for a 'NATIONAL THRESHING BEE' event, dated September 8, 1961. The scene includes a small farm with red barns and a tractor in a field, evoking a nostalgic 1960s Americana atmosphere. The film shows natural grain and slight color fading, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era.

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: 125498294

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 1028 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: mother,sioux falls, pushmobile, duluth in winter, clarence
Reel-level year note: 1960-1961
Reel-level location note: duluth,minnesota
Date: 1961 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: Minnesota, United States 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 1961 rural Minnesota or Midwestern agriculture sequences needing home-movie views of autumn roads, farm landscapes, and a threshing-bee sign.
Period detail: The dated sign, rural farm imagery, and 8mm color home-movie texture support an early 1960s setting, while the exact event location is not visible in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler perspective, moving from a quiet country road through autumn woods to a photographed agricultural event sign.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale dirt road, wooded hillsides, autumn trees, a yellow event sign, farm fields, red barn structures, and a tractor-like field scene.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, warm color fading, gate edges, and contact-sheet duplication that add physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural establishing insert, seasonal transition, agricultural cutaway, or memory beat between road travel and community-event material.
Historical context: The footage reflects rural community and agricultural imagery associated with early 1960s home movies, without proving the exact event beyond the visible sign text.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but the sign text and farm imagery should still be reviewed for copyright, property, and event-identification context.
Research search match: Searches for 1961 Minnesota 8mm rural road, autumn forest home movie, national threshing bee sign, or vintage farm event footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1961 Minnesota footage, then rural roads, autumn woodland, farm-event signs, and threshing or harvest scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Minnesota 8mm frame showing a rural dirt road bending through green, yellow, and brown autumn woodland. — A rural road winds into autumn woods and low hills.

Rural Minnesota road scene with a pale unpaved roadway cutting through autumn forest in soft 8mm color. — The road continues through dense trees with fall color.

Close view of a National Threshing Bee sign dated September 8, 1961, with a farm field, barns, and agricultural machinery pictured. — A National Threshing Bee sign shows a farm scene and September 8, 1961 date.

1961 agricultural event sign showing National Threshing Bee lettering, a farm landscape, red barns, and a field scene on a yellow background. — The sign remains in close-up with farm artwork and bold red event lettering.

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