Israel-1960: Man Guiding Mule-Drawn Plow in Field

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationIsrael
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Israel

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Man Guiding Mule-Drawn Plow in Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a sunny day in Israel with a man working in a rural field. The footage opens with panoramic views of a vast blue lake and distant hills, framed by dark borders typical of Super 8 film. The scene transitions to a man guiding a mule-drawn plow through a lush green field, surrounded by trees and wooden stakes. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and natural lighting evoke a nostalgic, authentic feel of mid-century rural life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127481752

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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: 1960 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: Israel 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s Israel archival requests needing rural labor, lakeside landscape, or traditional farming inserts from home-movie 8mm footage.
Period detail: The mule-drawn field work and soft color 8mm look may show mid-century rural practice, while the lake and hills give broader Israeli landscape context.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged visitor or family-film perspective, observing a working man and animal from a distance rather than arranging a formal scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue lake, distant hills, shoreline road, trees, a man in a field, a mule, wooden stakes, and green cultivated ground.
Film character: The clip shows visible grain, gate borders, slight fading, handheld framing, and uneven exposure that read as authentic small-gauge home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief rural-life cutaway, a transition from landscape to field work, or a memory beat within a 1960s Israel sequence.
Historical context: The images place agricultural manual labor beside a lakeside landscape, offering visual context for rural work without establishing a specific farm or community.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and property considerations should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1960 Israel 8mm rural farming, mule plowing field, vintage home movie lake landscape, and mid-century agricultural labor footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1960 Israel landscapes, and then with broader rural farming or animal-powered plowing scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Israel 8mm view of a blue lake, shoreline, and distant hills framed by dark film borders. — A lakeside landscape with distant hills appears at the start of the reel.

1960 Israel 8mm frame showing a lake, pale shoreline, road, and distant hills under a bright sky. — The camera holds on the lake and shoreline before cutting to the field work.

1960 Israel 8mm frame of a man working behind a mule in a green field bordered by trees and stakes. — A man appears to guide a mule-drawn plow through a cultivated field.

1960 Israel 8mm frame with a mule partly obscured by soft focus, greenery, stakes, and field shadows. — The final frame stays close to the field, with the mule and stakes softened by motion and focus.

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