Izmir Turkey-1962: Elderly Man Plowing Field With Oxen Near Gas Pump

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationIzmir, Turkey
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 Izmir Turkey

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Elderly Man Plowing Field With Oxen Near Gas Pump — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a farmer plowing a hillside field with two oxen in Izmir, Turkey. The scene unfolds from a roadside perspective, with a red and yellow gas pump visible in the foreground, contrasting traditional agriculture with mid-century modern infrastructure. The farmer, wearing a light-colored hat and simple work clothes, guides the animals across the tilled earth under a bright sky. Rolling green hills and a solitary tree frame the rural landscape, showcasing a moment of daily life in 1960s Anatolia. The footage exhibits natural film grain and color fading typical of Super 8 home movies.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127006693

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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: 1962 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: Izmir, Turkey 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing 1960s rural Turkey footage, traditional farming, ox-drawn plowing, or a contrast between Anatolian agriculture and roadside modern infrastructure.
Period detail: The red and yellow roadside pump, 8mm color stock, clothing, and ox-drawn plow support a mid-century setting, with 1962 Izmir supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The scene has the value of an unstaged roadside observation, with the camera holding on a farmer guiding oxen across a hillside field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a farmer, two oxen, a wooden plow or yoke, tilled soil, a red and yellow gas pump, a bare tree, rolling hills, and distant green fields.
Film character: The clip carries home-movie texture through soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, contact-frame borders, and a steady but informal roadside composition.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, cutaway, or memory beat for rural labor, travel in Turkey, agricultural continuity, or mid-century landscape contrast.
Historical context: The footage visually places animal-powered fieldwork beside a roadside fuel pump, suggesting a daily-life contrast without making broader claims beyond the frame.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no readable logos appear, but copyright, location, and any property considerations should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 Izmir Turkey 8mm home movie, farmer plowing with oxen, rural Anatolia field work, roadside gas pump, and vintage agricultural footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Izmir or Turkey material, then broader rural farming, oxen, roadside travel, or mid-century landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Izmir home-movie frame showing a farmer guiding oxen across a hillside field near a roadside gas pump. — A farmer works a plowed hillside field with oxen as a roadside pump stands in the foreground.

1962 Izmir frame with a farmer and two oxen moving across tilled ground, with hills and a pump nearby. — The farmer and oxen move across the field while the pump and roadside edge remain fixed in view.

1962 Izmir home-movie still showing oxen and a farmer on a plowed slope beside a roadside pump. — The animals and farmer appear to turn or reset their path on the uneven hillside field.

1962 Izmir frame showing a farmer behind two oxen in a rural field, with a red and yellow pump at right. — The farmer continues behind the oxen as the rural hillside and roadside pump frame the scene.

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