Minnesota-1971: Machine Processing Hays In The Field

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

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Machine Processing Hays In The Field — Clip Details

MINNESOTA-1971: A vintage 8mm film clip captures a hay harvesting operation in a rural field. A large mechanical hay baler processes golden hay, with a long chute ejecting a stream of hay into a growing pile. Two men in period attire, one in a white shirt and hat, observe the machine's operation. The scene unfolds under a bright sky, with a cornfield in the background, showcasing mid-20th century agricultural practices. The footage exhibits the characteristic grain and color saturation of 8mm home movie film from the early 1970s.

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: 125770958

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: Useful for documentary or educational requests needing 1971 Minnesota farm footage of mechanized hay handling and rural field labor.
Period detail: The frames show period work clothes, hats, an older wheeled hay-processing machine, open fields, and a cornfield background consistent with early 1970s rural footage.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from nearby as men stand around the working machine, giving the clip an unstaged field-visit perspective rather than a formal demonstration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a hay chute, airborne hay, a growing hay pile, men watching, wagon wheels, belt machinery, rope or fence line, and distant crops.
Film character: The 8mm footage has saturated color, visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of a home-movie farm record.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an agricultural insert, rural labor cutaway, mechanization transition, or brief memory beat within a 1970s farm sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents small-group observation of mechanized hay processing in a Minnesota field without supporting broader claims about ownership or operation.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from people or property concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1971 Minnesota 8mm farm footage, hay processing machine, vintage hay baler in field, rural agriculture home movie, and crop field cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1971 Minnesota farm scenes, then broader 1970s haying or agricultural machinery clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Minnesota farm footage shows a wheeled hay-processing machine throwing hay into a pile as two men observe near a cornfield. — Two men stand by a working hay-processing machine as hay sprays into a pile.

The hay chute continues ejecting material into a growing pile while a man in a white shirt and hat stands near the machinery. — A stream of hay falls from the chute as a man stands beside the field operation.

A side view shows the wheeled hay-processing machine, belts, frame supports, hay pile, and several men gathered in the field. — Men look over the side of the hay-processing machinery in the field.

A young male figure crosses the foreground while the wheeled hay-processing machine and hay pile remain visible in the Minnesota field. — A young male figure passes the camera as the hay-processing machine fills the background.

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