Jordan Minnesota-1969: Two Men Operating Band Saw

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationJordan, Minnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Minnesota

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Two Men Operating Band Saw — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures two men operating a large portable band saw in a dry, open field in Jordan, Minnesota. One man in a light-colored shirt and hard hat guides a long wooden slat through the saw, while another in a dark shirt and cowboy hat stands by. The scene, framed by the film's natural vignette, shows the rugged industrial machine cutting wood, with a trailer and tools nearby. The warm, slightly faded colors and visible film grain evoke a strong sense of Americana and rural craftsmanship from the late 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125594837

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1019 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1969
Reel-level location note: savage minnesota
Date: 1969 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: Jordan, 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 rural work, farm machinery, and small-scale industrial labor sequences needing authentic 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The hard hats, open field setting, trailer-mounted equipment, and faded 8mm color support a late-1960s rural work scene in Jordan, Minnesota.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie feel, watching the men handle a long board and saw setup without staged posing or direct address.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two working men, hard hats, a large portable band saw, a long wooden slat, a small trailer, tools, a red bucket, and dry open grassland.
Film character: The footage shows warm faded color, soft focus, visible grain, slight handheld instability, and dark frame-edge vignetting from the 8mm scan.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a cutaway, work-process insert, rural labor transition, or brief memory beat about practical craft and machinery.
Historical context: The scene documents hands-on outdoor cutting work with portable equipment, reflecting visible rural labor practices rather than a formal industrial facility.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, but copyright, location, and machinery/property context should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 8mm rural Minnesota work footage, men using portable band saw, farm machinery cutting wood, and vintage home movie labor scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Jordan, Minnesota 1969 footage, then related rural work, farm machinery, and woodcutting scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Jordan, Minnesota in 1969, two men work around a trailer-mounted band saw with a long wooden slat in a dry open field. — Two men prepare or guide a wooden slat at a portable band saw in an open rural field.

A 1969 rural Minnesota frame shows a man beside a large portable saw and another man standing near the long board feed path. — Workers stand at either side of a long wooden slat running through the band saw setup.

A worker in Jordan, Minnesota appears to operate or monitor a portable band saw as a wooden slat crosses the frame in 1969 home-movie footage. — A worker monitors the portable saw as the long slat passes across the machinery.

The final frame shows the men still working around the trailer-mounted band saw and long wooden slat in the 1969 Jordan, Minnesota field scene. — The men continue the cutting setup around the trailer-mounted band saw and long board.

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