Wisconsin Dells Wisconsin-1954: Farmer Rides Tractor Attachment While Gathering Crops

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Year1954
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1954 Wisconsin Dells

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Farmer Rides Tractor Attachment While Gathering Crops — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a farmer in a plaid shirt and straw hat working in a rural field in Wisconsin Dells. He tends to a tractor-mounted attachment while another man in a red shirt operates the green tractor. The footage shows agricultural labor under a clear sky, with open farmland and distant trees in the background. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and authentic 1950s home movie quality, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century farming life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127409869

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 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s rural Wisconsin agriculture requests needing home-movie footage of field work, tractor equipment, and mid-century farm labor.
Period detail: The straw hat, plaid work shirt, small tractor attachment, and faded 8mm color may show a mid-1950s farm scene consistent with the supplied 1954 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unposed view of a farmer crouched on equipment and tending crops while work continues across an open field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a farmer in a straw hat, plaid shirt, tractor-mounted implement, white container, rough field rows, dirt road, distant trees, and open farmland.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight fading, gate shadows, and a contact-print feel that signal original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, rural labor cutaway, agricultural transition, or memory beat in a sequence about farm work.
Historical context: The footage visually documents small-scale field labor and tractor-assisted crop gathering without supporting claims about farm ownership or crop type.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, location, and personal rights should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1954 8mm farm footage, Wisconsin Dells agriculture, farmer on tractor attachment, rural field work, and mid-century home movies.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Wisconsin Dells or 1954 footage, then broader rural farming and tractor-labor material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Wisconsin Dells home-movie frame showing a farmer in a plaid shirt and straw hat tending equipment in a rural field. — A farmer works from a low tractor-mounted attachment beside rough field rows.

Farmer in a straw hat leans forward over a tractor-mounted implement in a Wisconsin Dells field, with open farmland behind him. — The farmer continues tending the attachment while the field and road stretch behind him.

Soft 8mm frame of a farmer crouched on farm equipment during apparent crop gathering in 1954 Wisconsin Dells. — A low-angle home-movie view shows the farmer focused on the equipment and field rows.

A farmer in work clothes tends a tractor-mounted attachment in an open Wisconsin Dells field, seen through grainy 8mm color film. — The farmer remains bent over the implement as the rural landscape fills the background.

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