Iowa-1959: The Crops In The Field Behind The House Are Almost Ready To Be Harvested

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

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The Crops In The Field Behind The House Are Almost Ready... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a rural Iowa backyard scene. The camera pans slowly across a leafy yard, revealing a large tree trunk in the foreground, a weathered shed, and a field of tall corn stretching into the distance. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 color shifts with a dominant blue-purple tint, characteristic of aged film, and shows natural sunlight filtering through the trees. A small animal, possibly a rabbit, briefly appears in the grass. This authentic slice of mid-century Americana offers nostalgic, archival footage ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or vintage-themed content.

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: 127421556

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: Supports 1950s rural Midwest requests needing brief home-movie views of a backyard, outbuilding, trees, lawn, and crop field for documentary or educational context.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage may show mid-century rural domestic surroundings, with a small shed or garage, mature trees, and tall field crops visible behind the yard.
Home-movie behavior: The slow handheld pan has the informal observational feel of a family filming familiar property and seasonal crops rather than a staged agricultural scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tree trunks, shaded lawn, a pale outbuilding, tall crops, leafy branches, bright sun patches, and a small animal-like shape in the grass.
Film character: A blue-purple color shift, soft focus, gate edges, grain, and uneven exposure give the clip a recognizable aged 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing cutaway, seasonal transition, memory beat, or quiet insert between family or farm-related scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents a domestic view onto cultivated land, suggesting the closeness of home yards and working fields in rural Iowa settings of the era.
Research note: No people, faces, brands, or audible music are indicated, but exterior property and copyright status should still be reviewed before final use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1959 Iowa 8mm home movie, rural backyard corn field, mid-century farm outbuilding, and vintage Midwest crops.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1959 Iowa rural exteriors, then with broader 1950s farm, crop, and home-yard footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Iowa 8mm frame showing tree trunks in a shaded backyard, a small shed at left, and a crop field in the background. — Tree trunks frame a rural yard with a shed and crops beyond.

1959 Iowa home-movie view of trees, lawn, a pale outbuilding edge, and tall crops beyond the yard. — The pan moves past trees toward a pale outbuilding and field crops.

1959 Iowa 8mm frame showing the side of a pale outbuilding, shaded branches, lawn, and tall crops beyond. — A pale outbuilding stands beside lawn and tall field crops.

1959 Iowa home-movie frame centered on a pale outbuilding wall with a small window and tree shadows. — The shot settles on the outbuilding wall under shifting tree shade.

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