Minnesota USA-1961: Threshing Bee and Autumn Forest

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

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Threshing Bee and Autumn Forest — Clip Details

MINNESOTA USA-1961: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a rural farm community during a traditional threshing bee on September 8, 1961. The footage shows a farmer operating a tractor in a golden field, with red barns and farm buildings in the background under a bright sky. The scene transitions to a dark, silhouetted forest canopy, then brightens to reveal autumn foliage in vibrant yellows, oranges, and greens. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural lighting, evoking a nostalgic 1960s Americana atmosphere. This archival footage is ideal for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or educational projects about mid-century farming life.

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: 125498297

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s U.S. rural-life sequences needing brief home-movie evidence of a threshing bee notice, farm fields, and autumn woodland atmosphere.
Period detail: The handwritten-style title card date and 8mm color stock support a 1961 reading, while the farm scene may show mid-century Minnesota barns, fields, and tractor work.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an informal family-film viewpoint, lingering on a farm event marker and nearby landscape rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a threshing bee title card, painted farm scene, red barns, open field, distant tractor, dark tree line, blue sky, and autumn foliage.
Film character: Warm 8mm color, soft focus, gate edges, uneven exposure, and visible grain give the short scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural Americana insert, a dated event marker, a seasonal cutaway, or a memory beat between farm-life scenes.
Historical context: The footage places a local agricultural gathering within a rural landscape, showing how a home-movie maker connected farm activity with seasonal scenery.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related concerns should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 Minnesota 8mm farm footage, threshing bee home movie, rural barns and tractor field, and autumn forest cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel farm scenes, then Minnesota 1961 rural footage, then broader threshing, harvest, barn, tractor, or autumn landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Minnesota home-movie title card with a farm scene, red barns, field, and partial threshing bee date text. — Title card introduces a threshing bee with a painted rural farm scene.

Second view of the 1961 Minnesota threshing bee title card, with barns, field, and event text visible. — The event title card remains on screen with farm buildings and field artwork.

Minnesota autumn woodland view in 8mm color, showing a dark tree line and pale sky after the farm title card. — The clip cuts from the title card to a shadowed treetop view.

1961 Minnesota home-movie view of mixed autumn foliage, with green, yellow, and reddish trees below a bright sky. — Autumn foliage fills the frame as exposure brightens near the end of the clip.

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