Iowa-1959: A Woman Gazes Into A Cornfield

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

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A Woman Gazes Into A Cornfield — Clip Details

A woman in a light-colored dress stands in a vast cornfield in Iowa, 1959, gazing across the rolling farmland. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the rural landscape with soft, faded colors and natural film grain. Her short dark hair and glasses frame her profile as she looks toward the horizon, with the expansive field stretching behind her. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic moment from mid-century American life, with distant hills and open sky completing the pastoral view.

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: 127420857

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s rural America sequences needing a brief home-movie view of a woman standing beside Iowa cornfields and open farmland.
Period detail: The light dress, glasses, 8mm color stock, and farm landscape support a late-1950s home-movie reading, with Iowa and 1959 supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The woman appears casually filmed as she looks across the field, giving the shot an unstaged family-travel or roadside-observation quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a sleeveless light dress, tall corn, rolling farmland, distant hills, open sky, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: Soft faded color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing give the clip a recognizable mid-century 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural memory beat, agricultural cutaway, or quiet transition within a 1950s Midwest or family-history sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for mid-century rural life through clothing, landscape, and informal filming without making claims about the farm or crop beyond what is visible.
Research note: An adult woman is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos, minors, or obvious private-property identifiers are visible, and copyright clearance remains separate.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Iowa cornfield home movie, 1950s Midwest farmland woman, vintage 8mm rural America footage, and agricultural landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Iowa 1959 rural material, then broader 1950s Midwest farming and family-travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Iowa home-movie footage from 1959, a woman in a light dress faces across a cornfield toward distant farmland and low hills. — Woman standing at the edge of a cornfield, looking across rural Iowa farmland.

A cropped 1959 Iowa frame shows part of the woman at the edge of a broad cornfield, with rows of corn filling most of the view. — Cropped view of the woman beside dense rows of corn.

Profile view of the woman looking past the cornfield toward distant farmland.

Seen from behind in the 1959 Iowa footage, the woman looks out over corn and rolling farmland under a pale sky. — Rear view of the woman gazing across the cornfield and open countryside.

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