Minnesota USA-1961: Two Men Operate Hay Harvester in Rural Field

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

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Two Men Operate Hay Harvester in Rural Field — Clip Details

MINNESOTA USA-1961: Two men in blue work clothes and caps operate a large, vintage hay harvesting machine in a rural field. The 8mm film captures the men working with agricultural equipment, one standing and observing while the other bends to tend to the machinery. The scene is set outdoors with trees in the background, showcasing authentic mid-century farm life. The footage exhibits natural film grain and color shifts typical of 1960s home movies, offering a nostalgic glimpse into historical farming practices.

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: 125498357

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 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 1960s agricultural, rural labor, and Midwestern farm-life sequences needing authentic home-movie footage of men working around hay-harvesting equipment.
Period detail: The caps, blue work clothing, metal farm machinery, and 8mm color stock support a mid-century rural setting consistent with the 1961 Minnesota metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a short distance as one man stands by and another bends toward the machine, giving the clip an unstaged farm-work record rather than a posed view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two adult men, caps, blue work clothes, a large hay-harvesting machine, belts or arms, a long-handled tool, field ground, and trees behind them.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, color shifts, and slight handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, rural labor cutaway, agricultural-process detail, or memory beat within a sequence about farm work or family land.
Historical context: The footage visually documents manual attention to farm machinery in a rural outdoor setting without establishing the exact farm, owners, or equipment model.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, model, and property permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 Minnesota farm footage, 8mm hay harvester, vintage agricultural machinery, men working in a field, and rural home movies.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1961 Minnesota farm scenes, then broader 1960s rural labor and agricultural equipment material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Minnesota home-movie frame showing two adult men in work clothes near a large hay-harvesting machine outdoors. — Two men stand and bend near a vintage hay-harvesting machine in a field.

1961 Minnesota farm footage frame with one man standing by a large harvester as another tends to the machinery. — One worker stands at the side while another bends toward the farm machine.

1961 Minnesota home-movie frame showing a worker bent near the base of hay-harvesting equipment, with another figure partly visible. — A worker tends to the lower section of the harvester as the camera frames the machinery closely.

1961 Minnesota frame showing a hay-harvesting machine in close view, with one worker partly visible beside it. — The harvester dominates the frame while a worker remains partly visible at the edge.

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