LA Crosse Wisconsin-1971: Man Tilling Garden With Motorized Tiller

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

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Man Tilling Garden With Motorized Tiller — Clip Details

A man in a dark jacket and cap operates a white motorized tiller in a leaf-strewn garden plot in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on April 25, 1971. The 8mm home movie footage captures him working the soil in a rural backyard setting with bare trees and a wire fence in the background. The scene is shot on vintage Super 8 film, showing natural colors and film grain, with a title card confirming the location and date. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into 1970s domestic life and gardening practices.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 125770533

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 home-movie requests needing domestic gardening, small-scale yard work, or rural Midwestern family-life footage for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The dated title card and 8mm look support April 25, 1971, with visible era clues in the manual garden labor, dark work jacket, cap, wire fencing, and leaf-covered yard.
Home-movie behavior: The scene has the unstaged value of a family or local camerawork view, observing a man steadily guiding a small motorized tiller through a backyard garden plot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a cap, a white motorized tiller, dark garden soil, fallen leaves, bare trees, wire fencing, grass, and a handwritten title card.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm color, noticeable grain, slight exposure variation, and a steady home-movie framing that gives the clip physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, seasonal transition, domestic labor cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about gardening, family land, or 1970s everyday life.
Historical context: The clip visually places spring yard work in a residential or rural-edge setting, showing small-scale soil preparation rather than commercial farming.
Research note: A visible adult may require likeness review, and copyright clearance is separate from any privacy, likeness, or location-related assessment.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1971 8mm Wisconsin gardening footage, man using motorized tiller, La Crosse home movie, and 1970s backyard garden work.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then La Crosse or Wisconsin footage from 1971, then broader 1970s gardening, yard work, and domestic labor scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1971, a man guides a white motorized tiller through dark soil near bare trees and a wire fence. — A man tills a backyard garden plot with a small motorized machine.

The 1971 La Crosse home-movie frame shows a man working soil with a white tiller in a quiet outdoor yard setting. — The operator continues guiding the tiller through the garden soil.

A handwritten title card fills the frame, reading Mille Lacs Lake and April 25, 1971, on a plain light background. — Handwritten date and location card for Mille Lacs Lake, April 25, 1971.

The closing frame repeats the handwritten Mille Lacs Lake title card with the April 25, 1971 date visible. — Second view of the handwritten Mille Lacs Lake date card.

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