Jordan Minnesota-1969: Hay Being Shredded In Industrial Machine And Man Using Pitchfork

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

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Hay Being Shredded In Industrial Machine And Man Using... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a rural farming scene in Jordan, Minnesota. A large industrial machine shreds hay, ejecting a stream of golden straw into a growing pile as a classic blue pickup truck waits nearby. A farmer in a hat and work clothes uses a pitchfork to move hay between massive stacks under a clear sky. The footage shows authentic agricultural labor with natural film grain and color fading typical of Super 8 home movies.

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: 125594906

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 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s rural Minnesota farm footage suited to documentary inserts about hay handling, agricultural labor, or small-farm mechanization.
Period detail: The blue work truck, open hay stacks, pitchfork use, and belt-driven-looking farm machinery may show late-1960s agricultural practices in a rural Midwestern setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie view of a worker managing hay while machinery runs nearby, emphasizing routine farm labor rather than posed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a hay-shredding machine, straw spray, large hay piles, a blue truck, a man with a pitchfork, work clothes, open field, and clear sky.
Film character: The 8mm footage carries soft focus, warm color fading, visible grain, and slight handheld framing that support its physical home-movie archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural labor cutaway, agricultural process insert, transition between farm scenes, or brief memory beat of 1960s hay work.
Historical context: The clip visually documents hands-on hay handling alongside farm machinery, suggesting a working rural scene without making claims about the specific farm or operation.
Research note: A person is visible and may require likeness review; no readable logos are apparent, but copyright, location, and property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1969 8mm hay shredding, Jordan Minnesota farm labor, vintage home movie pitchfork, rural machinery, and 1960s agricultural footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel farm scenes, then other Jordan Minnesota 1969 material, then broader 1960s haying, machinery, and rural labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Jordan, Minnesota in 1969, farm machinery sprays shredded hay beside a blue truck and a large straw pile in an open field. — Hay is blown from machinery into a pile while a blue truck stands nearby.

1969 rural Minnesota footage shows a hay-shredding machine throwing straw into a pile, with a blue truck parked next to the work area. — A stream of shredded hay lands on a pile beside farm machinery and a truck.

In the 1969 Jordan, Minnesota farm scene, a man in a hat uses a pitchfork while standing among stacked hay under a clear sky. — A worker moves hay with a pitchfork between large stacks.

A man in work clothes carries or uses a pitchfork near large hay stacks in this 1969 rural Jordan, Minnesota home-movie frame. — The worker continues along the hay stacks with a pitchfork.

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