Minnesota-1971: Steam-Powered Farm Machine Operating in Cornfield

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 Minnesota

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Steam-Powered Farm Machine Operating in Cornfield — Clip Details

MINNESOTA-1971: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a green steam-powered agricultural machine in a rural field, likely a thresher or baler, with a large hay bale nearby. Several men in 1970s attire, including a man in a plaid shirt and straw hat, observe the machinery. The footage shows the machine in operation under a clear blue sky, with cornfields in the background, offering a nostalgic look at mid-century farming technology and rural life.

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: 125770847

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1971 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: 1971 Minnesota 8mm footage suited to documentary or educational requests for rural agricultural machinery, steam-era farm demonstrations, and home-movie views of field gatherings.
Period detail: The men’s plaid shirt, straw hat, work trousers, and the color 8mm look support an early 1970s rural setting, while the machine appears to be older agricultural equipment on display or in use.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes visitors standing near the machinery, giving the clip an unstaged home-movie view of people watching a farm technology demonstration in a field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a green steam-powered agricultural machine, large spoked wheels, red flywheels, hay or straw stacks, cut field grass, distant corn rows, and adult male onlookers.
Film character: The clip has a scanned 8mm texture with visible grain, dust specks, saturated color, slight softness, and handheld framing consistent with amateur home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, rural transition, technology cutaway, or memory beat within sequences about agriculture, farm heritage, or vintage machinery.
Historical context: The scene shows adults gathered around older farm equipment in an open Minnesota field, suggesting public interest in agricultural machinery without proving a specific event or venue.
Research note: People are visible and may require likeness review for some uses; no logos or private property are apparent, but copyright and any location or event permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1971 Minnesota 8mm farm machinery, vintage steam agricultural machine, rural field home movie, thresher demonstration, and farm heritage footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Minnesota 1971 rural footage, and then with broader agricultural machinery, threshing, haying, or farm demonstration material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Minnesota 8mm frame showing a vintage agricultural machine near a large hay or straw stack, with corn rows and open sky beyond. — A farm machine stands beside a large stack of cut hay or straw in an open field.

1971 Minnesota home-movie frame of adult men observing a green steam-powered agricultural machine with large wheels and red flywheels in a rural field. — Adult onlookers stand near a green steam-powered farm machine beside a hay or straw stack.

1971 Minnesota frame showing several adults watching a green vintage agricultural machine, with a straw-hatted man in plaid closest to the camera. — Several adults view the green farm machine from close range in the field.

1971 Minnesota 8mm frame of a green steam-era farm machine with large spoked wheels, red flywheels, and adult men standing beside it. — A green steam-era agricultural machine fills the frame as men stand nearby.

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