Vacaville California-1937: Woman Wearing A Hat In A Cornfield

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Year1937
Decade1930s
LocationVacaville, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1937 Vacaville California

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Woman Wearing A Hat In A Cornfield — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1937 captures a woman in a wide-brimmed hat and dark jacket walking through a dense cornfield in Vacaville, California. The grainy black-and-white footage shows her moving among the tall stalks, with a wire fence visible in the foreground. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—soft focus, natural lighting, and subtle camera movement—evoking a nostalgic, rural American moment. The scene offers authentic archival footage of mid-20th century farming life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127259586

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: 1937 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: Vacaville, California, 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 1930s rural California or Depression-era farm-life sequences needing brief home-movie footage of a woman moving through a crop field.
Period detail: The wide-brimmed hat, dark cardigan or jacket, wire fence, and tall crop rows may show everyday rural dress and field surroundings in the late 1930s.
Home-movie behavior: The woman appears unstaged or informally directed, walking close to the camera as a home-movie operator follows a small moment in the field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a hat, tall crop stalks, leafy rows, a wire fence, dark film edges, and soft outdoor light.
Film character: The 8mm footage has pronounced grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, gate edges, and slight handheld movement that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural-life cutaway, memory beat, agricultural insert, or quiet transition within a 1930s family or farming sequence.
Historical context: The clip offers a small-scale view of a woman among cultivated rows near Vacaville, without enough visual evidence to identify the farm, crop ownership, or occasion.
Research note: A visible adult face or likeness may require review for commercial use, while copyright, privacy, and any property permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1937 Vacaville 8mm home movie, woman in cornfield, rural California farming footage, and 1930s agricultural family film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Vacaville or 1937 California material, then with broader 1930s farm, crop, and rural family footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A wire fence and dense crop growth appear in a 1937 Vacaville, California 8mm home-movie frame. — Wire fence and leafy crop rows at the edge of the field.

A woman in a wide-brimmed hat and dark jacket walks through tall crop rows in 1937 Vacaville home-movie footage. — Woman walking through the field between tall stalks.

The camera looks down toward the woman's broad hat as she moves beside dense crop growth in the Vacaville field. — Close view of the hat as the woman passes through the crop rows.

The woman appears partly bent or turning beside tall crop stalks, her wide-brimmed hat prominent in the 1937 field footage. — Woman bending or turning among the tall crop plants.

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