Jordan Minnesota-1969: The Agricultural Revolution The Utilization Of Machinery

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

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The Agricultural Revolution The Utilization Of Machinery — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from Jordan, Minnesota, in 1969 captures a rural farming scene. The footage opens with a close-up of a steam-powered engine, its black and red components detailed against a pale sky, with faint steam rising. The scene then shifts to a wide shot of farmers and families gathered around large hay bales under a clear blue sky. Men in casual work clothes and women in light sweaters stand near a pickup truck and a hay baler, observing the harvest. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film evokes a nostalgic, authentic slice of mid-century American agriculture.

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: 125594927

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s U.S. rural agriculture requests needing brief home-movie footage of farm machinery, hay handling, and observers at a Minnesota harvest scene.
Period detail: The clothing, pickup truck, open field, hay bales, and black-and-red machinery support a late-1960s rural Minnesota setting consistent with the supplied 1969 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The scene has an unstaged community-observer feel, with adults standing near the truck and machinery while workers move around the hay.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a steam or engine component, pale sky, hay piles, a pickup truck, farm workers, onlookers, open grass, and harvest machinery.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, handheld framing, and exposure shifts that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or cutaway for mechanized farming, rural labor, harvest gatherings, or memory-led Midwest agriculture sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually situates farm machinery within a social field setting where work, spectatorship, and family presence appear to overlap during a hay operation.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, but copyright, privacy, and any property or equipment identification should be checked separately.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1969 Minnesota farm machinery, 8mm home movie hay harvest, rural Midwest agriculture footage, or Jordan Minnesota farming scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Jordan or 1969 Minnesota farming material, then broader 1960s haying and agricultural machinery footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close-up of black and red agricultural machinery in the 1969 Jordan, Minnesota home-movie clip, with soft focus and pale sky behind it. — Close detail of farm machinery at the start of the clip.

Agricultural machine detail, likely part of a steam-powered or belt-driven setup, filmed in the Jordan, Minnesota 1969 farm scene. — Machinery detail with rods or belts visible against the sky.

Wide 1969 Jordan, Minnesota farm scene with adults watching workers around hay piles, a pickup truck, and harvest equipment. — Onlookers and workers gather around hay and machinery in the field.

Wide home-movie view of a 1969 Jordan, Minnesota haying scene with spectators, workers, a truck, and machinery under a clear sky. — Farm visitors and workers stand near hay handling equipment.

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