California-1936: Farmer in White Hat Leads Team of Horses Plowing Field

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Year1936
Decade1930s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1936 California

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Farmer in White Hat Leads Team of Horses Plowing Field — Clip Details

A man in a white hat guides a team of four horses across a vast, sunlit field in this 1936 California 8mm home movie. The black-and-white footage captures the farmer walking alongside the plowing team, with the horses harnessed and moving in unison through the dry, open landscape. Shot on 8mm film, the clip shows natural grain and a slightly faded quality, evoking a nostalgic, rural American farming scene from the 1930s. The wide, flat terrain stretches to the horizon under a bright sky, emphasizing the scale of agricultural work during this era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
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: 127477536

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1936 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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 1930s California agriculture requests needing real 8mm home-movie footage of horse-drawn field work and rural labor.
Period detail: The harnessed horse team, open field, brimmed work hat, and black-and-white 8mm look support a 1930s rural farming setting in California.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distance as the farmer walks with the team, giving the scene an unstaged home-movie view of work in progress.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white-hatted man, four harnessed horses, dusty ground, plowed field rows, a bright sky, and a flat horizon.
Film character: The footage has 8mm grain, soft contrast, slight fading, gate edges, and contact-sheet frame divisions that add physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural labor insert, agricultural transition, Depression-era cutaway, or quiet memory beat about farm work.
Historical context: The clip visually documents horse-powered field work in an open California landscape without showing identifiable landmarks or machinery.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos, music, private property, or children are apparent from the supplied frames.
Research search match: Researcher matches include 1930s California farm footage, 8mm horse-drawn plowing, rural home movie, farmer with horse team, and vintage agriculture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then 1936 California material, then broader 1930s rural agriculture or horse-drawn work footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1936 California 8mm frame showing a farmer in a white hat leading harnessed horses across an open field. — A farmer walks alongside the horse team near the edge of a broad plowed field.

A team of horses crosses a bright California field as a white-hatted farmer walks ahead in the 1936 home-movie frame. — The horse team advances across the field with the farmer walking ahead to the right.

Several harnessed horses fill the frame as they move through dust across a 1936 California farm field. — The harnessed horses pass closer to the camera, kicking up dust in the open field.

The horse team moves low in frame against a broad California field and pale sky in this 1936 8mm home-movie still. — The team continues across the lower frame with the plowed field stretching to the horizon.

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