Minnesota USA-1961: Farm Machine and Autumn Trees

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

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Farm Machine and Autumn Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a rural agricultural scene in Minnesota. The footage opens on a large, weathered farm machine—likely a combine harvester or grain auger—with its long metal chute extended, set against a backdrop of autumn trees. The camera then tilts upward to frame the dense canopy of a large tree against a pale blue sky, emphasizing the natural surroundings. The grainy texture and color shifts typical of Super 8 film add to the nostalgic, archival quality of this historical Americana clip.

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: 125498361

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: 1961 Minnesota 8mm home-movie footage for productions needing a brief rural agriculture insert, seasonal establishing detail, or Midwestern farm-life cutaway.
Period detail: The weathered metal farm machine, open field edge, and autumn foliage may show mid-century rural equipment and landscape details consistent with the 1961 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged family-film viewpoint, moving from a farm machine to nearby trees as a casual record of place rather than a planned demonstration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large farm machine with an extended chute, wagon-like wheels, autumn trees, dense canopy, pale sky, dark frame edges, and handheld framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, soft focus, color drift, gate shadows, and slight handheld movement that support its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing insert, agricultural cutaway, seasonal transition, or quiet memory beat between broader Midwestern home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The frames place farm equipment beside mature trees in autumn, offering visual context for rural Minnesota surroundings without identifying a specific farm or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, and property considerations should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1961 Minnesota farm machine 8mm footage, rural autumn trees home movie, and vintage Midwest agriculture cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1961 Minnesota material, and then with rural agriculture, farm equipment, or autumn landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Minnesota 8mm frame showing a weathered farm machine with an extended chute near autumn trees. — A large farm machine stands at the edge of a tree-lined rural area.

1961 Minnesota 8mm frame of a dense autumn tree canopy under a pale blue sky. — The camera tilts upward from the machinery toward the surrounding trees.

1961 Minnesota home-movie frame showing autumn foliage filling the lower frame beneath open sky. — Dense fall foliage becomes the main subject as the farm machine leaves view.

1961 Minnesota 8mm frame of a rounded autumn tree canopy with pale sky and dark gate shadows. — The clip closes on the treetop and sky, with visible 8mm edge shadows.

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