Nebraska-1959: Shirtless Man Digging In Grassy Field

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNebraska, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1951 Nebraska

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Shirtless Man Digging In Grassy Field — Clip Details

NEBRASKA-1959: A shirtless man in blue jeans digs into a grassy field with a shovel, working on a large pile of turned earth. The 8mm home movie footage captures the rural labor in natural daylight, with bare trees and a wooden fence post visible in the background. The film shows characteristic grain and color fading of vintage Super 8 footage, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American life and manual farm work.

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: 127499063

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: 1959 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: Nebraska, 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 1950s rural America requests needing brief home-movie footage of outdoor manual labor or farm-adjacent digging work in Nebraska.
Period detail: The shirtless man in jeans, open grassy ground, bare trees, fence posts, and 8mm color stock support a late-1950s rural home-movie setting.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged view of one man steadily digging and moving around a rough mound of earth while the camera observes from a distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a shirtless man, blue jeans, shovel, mounds of turned dirt, patchy grass, bare trees, fence posts, and a rustic structure in the background.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, mild fading, and slight handheld instability that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, rural labor insert, memory beat, or transitional detail within a mid-century farm or family-history sequence.
Historical context: The footage may show everyday outdoor maintenance or field work, offering a modest visual record of manual labor in a rural Nebraska setting.
Research note: A person is visible at distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or music are apparent, and copyright clearance remains separate from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1959 Nebraska 8mm home movie, shirtless man digging, rural field work, shovel labor, and mid-century farm footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then Nebraska 1959 rural footage, then broader 1950s home-movie scenes of outdoor work and farm labor.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1959 Nebraska home-movie footage, a shirtless man in blue jeans works with a shovel beside turned earth in a grassy rural area. — A man digs near a rough mound of soil in an open grassy field.

The man pauses or steps across the work area, with pale dirt mounds, grass, bare brush, and fence posts behind him. — The figure moves across the dug-up ground with the shovel nearby.

A distant view shows the shirtless man from behind as he works near the central dirt pile in the rural Nebraska field. — The man faces away from the camera beside the mound of turned soil.

The final frame holds on the man near the disturbed soil, with patchy grass, bare vegetation, and fence posts in the background. — The man stands at the edge of the dug area as the brief shot ends.

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