California-1962: Sweeping View of Rural Farmland and Cultivated Fields

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 California

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Sweeping View of Rural Farmland and Cultivated Fields — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this California home movie captures a sweeping view of rural farmland. The camera pans across rows of cultivated crops under a hazy sky, with a dirt path winding through the fields. The footage shows a vast agricultural landscape, with green vegetation contrasting against tilled earth, all framed by the characteristic grain and color saturation of vintage Super 8 film. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere of mid-century American countryside 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: 127471894

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 1236 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: disneyland
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1962 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: California, 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 1960s California rural agriculture requests needing home-movie footage of cultivated fields, dirt access paths, and open farmland as documentary or editorial context.
Period detail: The 1962 8mm footage may show mid-century field layout, small-scale crop rows, open tilled land, and a hazy rural horizon without visible modern structures or vehicles.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged handheld pan from a traveler or family observer, recording farmland from ground level rather than a planned agricultural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include crop rows, tilled soil, a curving dirt road, low green vegetation, scattered field edges, a broad horizon, hazy sky, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries a soft 8mm home-movie look with visible grain, saturated color, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing through the film gate.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing insert, agricultural transition, landscape cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a California or 1960s sequence.
Historical context: The view offers visual context for cultivated rural land in California in 1962, while the frames do not identify a specific farm, crop type, county, or owner.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location, crop, and any property identification should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Searches this clip may match include 1962 California farmland 8mm, rural crop fields home movie, mid-century agriculture footage, and dirt road through cultivated fields.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other California 1962 rural material, then broader 1960s agriculture, fields, and countryside travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 California 8mm frame showing crop rows, tilled earth, and open rural farmland under a hazy horizon. — Crop rows and open farmland fill the view beneath a hazy sky.

1962 California home-movie frame with a dirt access path, green crop rows, tilled soil, and distant flat farmland. — A dirt path cuts through cultivated farmland and low field rows.

1962 California 8mm view of open farmland, a curved dirt road, planted rows, and a broad hazy sky. — The pan follows a curved dirt road along planted fields.

1962 California frame showing a dirt road through farmland, low vegetation, distant fields, and light-colored flowers at the edge. — A dirt road and distant fields are seen with flowering plants near the foreground edge.

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