Vacaville California-1937: A Field Of Corn With Two Men Gathering Crops Together

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

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A Field Of Corn With Two Men Gathering Crops Together — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage home movie captures a rural cornfield in Vacaville, California. The footage opens with a view of tall corn stalks swaying under a bright sky, framed by the dark edges of a window or vehicle. In the final frames, two men in period attire—hats and work clothes—are seen harvesting the crop, their hands moving through the dense foliage. The grainy black-and-white image, with visible film scratches and dust, evokes a nostalgic, documentary feel of mid-20th century American agriculture.

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: 127259636

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 California agriculture requests needing brief home-movie footage of a cornfield and men harvesting crops for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The hats, work clothing, black-and-white 8mm texture, and rural field setting support a late-1930s agricultural reading when used with the supplied Vacaville metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage feels observational and unstaged, first looking past dark framing edges toward the crop before briefly catching two men working among the corn.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall corn stalks, a bright open sky, dark vertical frame edges, soft field detail, two men in hats, work clothing, and hands moving through foliage.
Film character: The clip has a grainy 8mm home-movie look with soft focus, uneven exposure, dust, scratches, and slight handheld framing that add archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short agricultural cutaway, rural transition, or memory beat linking family-film material to Depression-era farm work.
Historical context: The scene visually documents small-scale crop gathering in a rural California field without identifying the workers or making claims about farm ownership or labor conditions.
Research note: People are visible but not individually identifiable here, so likeness review may still be needed separate from copyright and any underlying collection rights.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1930s Vacaville California cornfield footage, 8mm home movie farm harvest, rural men gathering crops, and vintage California agriculture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel rural scenes, then other 1937 Vacaville footage, then broader 1930s California farm and harvest material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 Vacaville home-movie frame showing corn stalks beneath a bright sky, with dark vertical edges partly framing the view. — Corn stalks fill the lower frame beneath a bright sky, seen through dark framing edges.

A rural cornfield in the supplied Vacaville 1937 footage, seen through dark vertical edges with soft focus and visible film wear. — The camera holds on rows of corn below a bright, lightly marked sky.

A transitional 8mm frame from the Vacaville cornfield clip, showing bright sky, faint field detail, dark edges, dust, and scratches. — A brief overexposed view shows sky and faint field detail between dark frame edges.

Two men in period work clothing appear to gather crops in a Vacaville cornfield, partly hidden by dense stalks and soft 8mm focus. — Two hat-wearing men work close together among the corn stalks near the end of the clip.

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