Iowa-1959: Cornfield With Wind Blowing A Man Looking At The Landscape And Facing

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationIowa, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Iowa

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Cornfield With Wind Blowing A Man Looking At The... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a rural Iowa landscape with a vast cornfield swaying in the wind. The footage, framed by the dark edges of a window or viewfinder, shows a man in a patterned short-sleeve shirt and cap standing in the field, hands on his hips, gazing across the rolling farmland. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic moment of agricultural life, with natural light and the characteristic grain of Super 8 film adding to its authentic, archival quality. Ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about mid-century American countryside.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127420757

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 1319 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: iowa
Date: 1959 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: Iowa, 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: Useful for requests needing 1950s Iowa rural home-movie footage of cornfields, wind, and an adult farm visitor or resident for documentary inserts or period texture.
Period detail: The patterned short-sleeve shirt, cap, open farmland, and 8mm color home-movie look may show a late-1950s rural Midwestern family or travel scene.
Home-movie behavior: The man stands casually with hands on hips, looking across the fields in an unstaged home-movie moment rather than addressing the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall corn or field grass, rolling farmland, pale sky, dark film-frame edges, a fence post, and an adult man in a cap.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, gate edges, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing that give it clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing cutaway, agricultural transition, memory beat, or brief insert for mid-century American landscape context.
Historical context: The footage visually situates a quiet rural Iowa scene in the 1950s without confirming crop type, farm ownership, or the man's identity.
Research note: An adult face or likeness is visible, so copyright licensing should be considered separately from any needed likeness or contextual review.
Research search match: Researchers may match this to searches for 1959 Iowa 8mm cornfield footage, rural Midwest home movies, wind in farmland, or man surveying fields.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Iowa footage, and then broader rural agriculture or mid-century landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Iowa 8mm frame showing tall field growth in the foreground and rolling farmland beyond, with dark gate or viewfinder edges. — A wind-blown field opens onto distant rural farmland.

A 1959 Iowa rural landscape frame with tall plants in the foreground, distant fields, pale sky, and heavy dark film-edge framing. — Tall field growth fills the foreground with farmland stretching into the distance.

1959 Iowa home-movie frame with a partially visible adult man in a patterned shirt near a field and fence posts under a pale sky. — A man is partly cropped at the edge of the frame beside open farmland.

An adult man in a cap and patterned short-sleeve shirt stands hands on hips in a 1959 Iowa field landscape. — The man stands in the field looking across the rural landscape.

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