Minnesota-1974: Hay Bale In Field With Farmhouse In Distance

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Year1974
Decade1970s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Hay Bale In Field With Farmhouse In Distance — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1974, this vintage home movie captures a rural Minnesota landscape with a large hay bale resting in a harvested field. The footage shows a wide, open field under a clear sky, with additional hay bales scattered across the rolling terrain. In the distance, a farmhouse and trees line the horizon. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, grainy texture, and a slightly faded color palette with muted greens and browns. The camera remains mostly static, offering a quiet, nostalgic glimpse of midwestern farm life.

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: 125631226

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1974 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Minnesota, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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: Supports archival requests for 1970s rural Minnesota agriculture, especially documentary or educational edits needing quiet farm landscape coverage.
Period detail: The visible hay bales, harvested field, distant farmhouse, and soft 8mm color may show mid-1970s rural Midwest farm scenery.
Home-movie behavior: The static framing and modest subject choice preserve an unstaged home-movie look at everyday farmland rather than a directed scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a hay bale, harvested field, rolling ground, scattered distant bales, a tree line, farmhouse structures, open sky, and film gate edges.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm grain, soft focus, muted green-brown color, slight exposure shifts, and contact-sheet framing that signal physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a rural establishing shot, agricultural cutaway, transition, or reflective memory beat in Midwest or 1970s sequences.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for rural Minnesota farm landscapes without identifying a specific farm, family, or agricultural event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any property-context questions remain separate review points.
Research search match: Natural matches include 1974 Minnesota farm footage, 8mm hay bale field, rural Midwest home movie, vintage agriculture landscape, and harvested field cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel rural shots, then other Minnesota 1974 footage, then broader 1970s Midwest agriculture and landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A large hay bale rests in a harvested Minnesota field in 1974, seen through soft, grainy 8mm home-movie footage. — Large hay bale in a harvested field, framed close with soft 8mm texture.

Close view of a hay bale in a rural Minnesota field, with muted 1974 8mm color and visible grain. — Close field view of a single hay bale under muted daylight.

A foreground hay bale sits in a harvested Minnesota field, with another bale visible in the distance on 8mm film. — Foreground hay bale with a smaller distant bale across the field.

Wide 1974 Minnesota farm landscape with scattered hay bales, distant trees, and farmhouse structures along the horizon. — Wide rural field view with scattered hay bales and farm structures in the distance.

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