Jordan Minnesota-1969: Steam Tractor Drives Through Field With Crowd Watching

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

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Steam Tractor Drives Through Field With Crowd Watching — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a steam-powered tractor at a rural fair in Jordan, Minnesota. The large, black steam tractor with a prominent circular boiler and wide wheels is driven through a grassy field, carrying passengers under a simple canopy. A crowd of onlookers in 1960s casual attire watches from the sidelines, with another red tractor visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century agricultural machinery and community events.

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: 125594958

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

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: Useful for 1960s documentary or educational edits needing rural fair footage of historic farm machinery in public demonstration.
Period detail: The crowd clothing, open field setting, and vintage steam tractor support a late-1960s rural Minnesota fair or machinery-show context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, watching the tractor pass among spectators rather than staging the action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a steam tractor, canopy passengers, large rear wheels, grassy fairground, watching crowd, nearby tractor, trees, and parked vehicles.
Film character: The 8mm footage shows soft focus, handheld framing, visible grain, saturated color, and uneven exposure typical of amateur home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transition, or memory beat for agricultural heritage, county fair, or machinery demonstration sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents public interest in older steam-powered farm equipment within a community gathering, without identifying a specific event beyond the supplied location metadata.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no brands, private property, or audible music are indicated, and copyright clearance remains separate.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 8mm home movie steam tractor, Jordan Minnesota rural fair, vintage farm machinery demonstration, and crowd watching tractor.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Jordan Minnesota 1969 fair footage, then broader 1960s farm equipment and rural community scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Jordan, Minnesota home-movie frame showing a steam tractor from the rear as spectators watch from a rural fairground. — Rear view of a steam tractor carrying passengers past a fairground crowd.

Side view of a steam tractor carrying riders under a canopy at a 1969 rural gathering in Jordan, Minnesota. — Steam tractor moves through the field while spectators stand behind it.

Front-facing tractor approaches across a grassy fairground in Jordan, Minnesota, with onlookers and another tractor nearby. — A tractor approaches the camera as spectators watch from the edge of the field.

Home-movie frame from Jordan, Minnesota showing a tractor near the camera while a fairground crowd and another tractor remain behind it. — The tractor nears the camera with spectators and another machine visible behind.

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