LA Crosse Wisconsin-1971: Man Uses Machine To Till A Garden In A Forested

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationLa Crosse, Wisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 Wisconsin

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Man Uses Machine To Till A Garden In A Forested — Clip Details

A man in a dark jacket and cap operates a white garden tiller in a wooded backyard, tilling dark soil in a rural setting. Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a quiet moment of manual labor and seasonal preparation. Bare trees and a wire fence frame the scene, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American countryside. The footage shows natural movement and subtle camera shake, characteristic of handheld Super 8 recordings from the era.

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: 125770528

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 1007 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1971
Reel-level location note: Wisconsin,Michigan
Date: 1971 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: La Crosse, Wisconsin, 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 1970s American home-movie requests involving rural gardening, seasonal yard work, small-scale cultivation, or everyday domestic labor in Wisconsin.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage may show early 1970s clothing, a compact walk-behind garden tiller, wire fencing, bare trees, and a wooded residential or rural yard.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie view of a man steadily guiding a tiller through dark garden soil beside a fence.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a cap and dark jacket, a white walk-behind tiller, dark turned soil, wire fencing, bare trees, grass, and a wooded slope.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, gate edges, and handheld framing that give it recognizable home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, seasonal transition, memory beat, or rural domestic labor insert within a 1970s or gardening sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects small-scale garden preparation in a wooded Midwestern setting without supporting broader claims about agriculture or local history.
Research note: A visible adult face or likeness may require review, and copyright, likeness, and any property considerations should be assessed separately before use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1971 8mm Wisconsin home movie garden tilling, man using garden tiller, rural backyard labor, or vintage spring gardening footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel domestic outdoor scenes, then La Crosse or 1971 Wisconsin material, then broader 1970s gardening and rural home-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1971 La Crosse, Wisconsin home-movie footage, a man guides a white tiller through dark garden soil near bare trees and a fence. — A man tills dark soil with a walk-behind garden machine in a wooded yard.

The man continues tilling a garden plot in a wooded La Crosse yard, with wire fencing and bare trees visible behind him. — The tiller moves along the garden edge as the operator steers near a fence post.

The 8mm frame shows the man steering the tiller across the garden bed, framed by trees, grass, and a wire fence. — The operator walks behind the tiller while crossing the turned garden soil.

At the end of the clip, the man faces forward while guiding the white tiller through a garden plot in the wooded Wisconsin yard. — The man guides the tiller forward through the center of the garden plot.

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