Wisconsin Dells Wisconsin-1954: Farmer Operating Tractor Plowing Field

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Year1954
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1954 Wisconsin Dells

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Farmer Operating Tractor Plowing Field — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1954 captures a rural farming scene in Wisconsin Dells. A man in a red shirt operates a green tractor pulling a plow, while another man in a plaid shirt and hat works alongside the implement, tending to the soil. The footage shows the tractor moving steadily across a dry, open field under a bright sky, with the characteristic grain and color palette of mid-century home movie film. This authentic slice of Americana depicts agricultural labor in the 1950s.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127409843

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 1212 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1953-1954
Reel-level location note: wisconsin
Date: 1954 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: 1950s 8mm farm labor footage for documentary sequences needing a concise rural Wisconsin agricultural insert or period cutaway.
Period detail: The green tractor, pull-behind plow or soil implement, work clothes, open field, and color 8mm texture support a mid-century rural setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie view of two men working at field level as the tractor and implement move through dry soil.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a green tractor, large rear wheel, seated operator, man in plaid shirt, small trailing implement, furrowed soil, open field, and pale sky.
Film character: The clip shows soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and gate-edge contact-sheet framing consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short agricultural cutaway, period transition, rural labor insert, or memory beat within a family or regional history sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents hands-on field work with a tractor-assisted implement, showing mechanized and manual labor occurring together in an open farm landscape.
Research note: People are visible and likeness review may be needed; no readable logos or clear private-property identifiers are visible, and copyright status is separate from likeness clearance.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s Wisconsin farm footage, 8mm tractor plowing field, home movie agricultural labor, and rural Americana farming scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Wisconsin Dells 1954 material, then other 1950s farm, tractor, fieldwork, or rural labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Wisconsin Dells farm scene with a green tractor, seated operator, and a man in plaid tending a trailing implement in a dry field. — A tractor pulls a small field implement as a second man works close to the soil.

In the 1954 Wisconsin Dells footage, the tractor continues across the field while a man in plaid works near the trailing implement. — The tractor advances through the field with a worker close to the implement behind it.

The 1954 Wisconsin Dells home movie shows a plaid-shirted worker beside the implement as the green tractor moves through dry soil. — A worker tends the trailing equipment while the tractor pulls ahead across the field.

Near the end of the clip, the Wisconsin Dells farm scene shows the tractor, operator, and worker aligned across the open field. — The tractor and worker pass through the frame in a brief rural fieldwork view.

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