Mabel Minnesota-1969: Red and Grey Thresher Harvesting Hay

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

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Red and Grey Thresher Harvesting Hay — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a red and grey thresher machine operating in a sunlit field in Mabel, Minnesota. The clip shows the large agricultural machine actively processing hay, with a long conveyor arm extending over a growing pile of golden straw. The scene unfolds under a clear blue sky, with trees and distant farm structures visible in the background. The footage exhibits the characteristic grain and color saturation of 8mm home movies from the late 1960s, offering authentic archival footage of rural farming life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125595145

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: Mabel, 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 agriculture requests needing real 8mm home-movie footage of threshing or hay processing in the Upper Midwest.
Period detail: The red and grey farm machine, open field setting, and 8mm color stock support a late-1960s rural Minnesota farm context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the working machine from close field positions, giving the scene an informal family-film record of farm labor rather than a staged demonstration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red and grey thresher, long metal conveyor arm, straw piles, grass, blue sky, trees, distant farm structures, and small people near the machinery.
Film character: The clip has saturated 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, slight gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an agricultural insert, rural labor cutaway, harvest transition, or memory beat within a farm-life sequence.
Historical context: The footage shows mechanized field work in a rural setting, with straw being processed outdoors under clear weather and people present around the equipment.
Research note: People appear small and not clearly identifiable in these stills; copyright, likeness, and any property or machinery identification should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 8mm Minnesota farm footage, vintage thresher machine, rural agriculture home movie, and hay or straw processing in a field.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Mabel or 1969 Minnesota material, then broader vintage farming and threshing footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Mabel, Minnesota 8mm frame showing a red and grey thresher with a long conveyor arm over a straw pile in a field. — A thresher stands beside a growing pile of straw under a clear sky.

1969 Mabel, Minnesota 8mm frame of a thresher working near a straw pile, with trees and distant farm structures behind it. — The thresher conveyor extends across the frame above the straw pile.

1969 Mabel, Minnesota 8mm frame showing a straw mound beside a red thresher or farm machine with small people nearby. — A straw mound fills the foreground while the farm machine sits to the side.

1969 Mabel, Minnesota 8mm frame of a straw pile and red thresher from a close handheld field viewpoint, with small people near the equipment. — The camera frames the straw pile and the rear of the thresher at close range.

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