California-1937: Man Planting Crops In Field

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Year1937
Decade1930s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1937 California

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Man Planting Crops In Field — Clip Details

A young man in a light-colored shirt and hat crouches in a vast, sun-drenched field, tending to crops in this 1937 8mm home movie from California. The black-and-white footage captures the rural labor of planting rice or corn, with the man working amidst tall stalks under a bright sky. A bird flies across the horizon in the distance, adding to the pastoral scene. The grainy texture and film edges are characteristic of vintage Super 8 home movies, offering authentic archival footage of mid-20th century agricultural life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127558507

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: 1937 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 brief editorial inserts of field labor, crop tending, or rural home-movie evidence.
Period detail: The light clothing, brimmed hat, open field, and black-and-white 8mm look support a 1937 rural California reading from the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage observes a man crouching and working among crops from a distant, informal home-movie vantage rather than a staged demonstration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a brimmed hat, tall field growth, open rolling land, bright sky, film gate edges, and frame scratches.
Film character: The clip has a high-contrast 8mm home-movie texture with grain, soft focus, gate edges, light flicker, and visible vertical wear marks.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, rural labor insert, agricultural transition, or memory beat within a 1930s California sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually documents hand labor in an open crop field, offering social context for everyday rural work without identifying the crop with certainty.
Research note: A person is visible but not clearly identifiable; copyright, likeness, and any location or property permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1937 California 8mm field work, man planting crops, Depression-era agriculture, or home-movie farm labor footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1937 California rural scenes, then broader 1930s agriculture or hand-labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 California 8mm frame showing a man in a brimmed hat crouched among tall field growth under a bright sky. — A man bends low among crops in an open rural field.

The man remains crouched in a California field, partly obscured by crop growth and framed by 8mm film edges. — The worker continues tending plants close to the ground.

A 1937 California home-movie frame shows the man bent near the crops, with open land and sky stretching behind him. — The field worker is seen low in the crop rows from a distant camera position.

The man in a hat bends forward in the California field, appearing to tend or plant crops in the final sampled frame. — The worker bends over the plants at the edge of the frame.

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