Wisconsin Dells Wisconsin-1954: Farmer Tends Tilled Field With Tractor Plow

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

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Farmer Tends Tilled Field With Tractor Plow — Clip Details

A man in a plaid shirt and straw hat tends to a tilled field in Wisconsin Dells, 1954, as a tractor with a cart plow attachment moves nearby. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie captures rural farm work under bright daylight, with a wide open field and distant treeline. The footage shows a farmer working the soil, possibly planting seeds, while another person rides the tractor. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film evokes mid-century Americana and agricultural life.

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: 127409885

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1950s rural agriculture requests needing real 8mm home-movie footage of field work, hand tending, and tractor activity for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The straw hat, plaid work shirt, open tilled field, and small tractor setup may show mid-century farm labor consistent with the supplied 1954 Wisconsin Dells metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The scene has an unstaged home-movie feel, observing a worker close to the ground while another person rides past on the tractor during ordinary field work.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a crouching farmer, straw hat, plaid shirt, tilled soil, white pail or container, tractor wheel, seated rider, open field, road, utility poles, and distant treeline.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that preserve the texture of a mid-century family film record.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief agricultural insert, rural labor cutaway, or memory beat between broader Wisconsin Dells or 1950s countryside sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually places manual field tending beside small-scale tractor use, suggesting everyday rural work without making claims about the farm, crop, or people shown.
Research note: People are visible and may require likeness review; no logos are apparent, while copyright, location, and any property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s Wisconsin farm work 8mm, farmer tending tilled field, tractor plow home movie, rural labor footage, and Wisconsin Dells agriculture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1954 Wisconsin Dells material, then broader 1950s farm work, tractor, planting, and rural Americana footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1954 Wisconsin Dells footage, a farmer in a plaid shirt and straw hat works low to the ground near a white pail in a tilled field. — A farmer tends soil by hand in an open tilled field.

The farmer remains crouched near the soil in the Wisconsin Dells farm scene, with open land and a distant treeline behind him. — The worker continues hand tending beside a small container in the field.

A rider on a tractor moves into the frame beside the crouching farmer, with tilled soil and open Wisconsin countryside visible beyond. — A tractor passes close to the farmer working in the field.

The tractor rider sits above the field equipment while the crouching farmer remains at work in the 1954 Wisconsin Dells farm footage. — The tractor and rider pass through the foreground of the farm work scene.

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