Iowa-1959: Vast Cornfield with Golden Tassels Swaying

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationIowa, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Iowa

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Vast Cornfield with Golden Tassels Swaying — Clip Details

IOWA-1959: A sweeping view of a vast cornfield captured on 8mm film, with tall green stalks and golden tassels swaying gently in the breeze. The camera pans slowly across the rolling farmland under a pale sky, revealing the expansive agricultural landscape of rural Iowa. Shot from a moving vehicle, the footage shows natural film grain and subtle color shifts typical of vintage home movies from the late 1950s. This authentic archival clip evokes a sense of nostalgia and rural Americana, ideal for historical documentaries, editorial content, or vintage-themed projects.

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: 127420821

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: 1950s Iowa farm footage suited to documentary or educational sequences needing a brief rural agriculture establishing view.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century cornfields and open rolling farmland, with no visible machinery, buildings, people, or modern markers.
Home-movie behavior: The moving, unstaged viewpoint suggests a family or traveler filming farmland from a roadside or vehicle rather than a staged agricultural scene.
What appears in frame: Tall corn stalks, pale tassels, distant rolling fields, a hazy sky, dark 8mm frame borders, and occasional foreground fence posts are visible.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm home-movie texture through soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, exposure variation, and handheld or vehicle motion.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a rural insert, agricultural transition, landscape cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1950s Midwest sequence.
Historical context: The view places corn cultivation within a broad rural Iowa landscape, emphasizing open farmland rather than farm labor or equipment.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s Iowa cornfield 8mm, rural Midwest farm home movie, vintage corn tassels, and American farmland cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Iowa 1959 farm material, then broader 1950s Midwest agriculture or rural landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Iowa home-movie frame of a cornfield with tall green stalks, pale tassels, distant fields, and a hazy sky. — Cornfield foreground with rolling farmland in the distance.

1959 Iowa footage frame showing dense corn plants, pale tassels, open farmland, and soft 8mm color fading. — Dense corn plants with pale tassels and distant fields beyond.

1959 Iowa cornfield frame with tasseled corn, green leaves, a foreground fence post, and distant rolling farmland. — Tasseled cornfield viewed past a foreground fence post.

1959 Iowa home-movie frame of corn tassels at the field edge, open farmland beyond, and a visible post at right. — Cornfield edge with open Iowa farmland stretching into the background.

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