California-1939: Three People And Two Agricultural Machines Harvesting In The Field

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 California

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Three People And Two Agricultural Machines Harvesting In... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage footage captures agricultural workers operating early harvesting machinery in a California field. Two men stand atop a large combine harvester while another operates a tractor, all engaged in the harvest under a bright sky. The grainy, monochrome image shows the dusty, labor-intensive process of early 20th-century farming, with visible film grain and edge damage characteristic of home movie footage. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into rural American agriculture during the Great Depression era.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127570613

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 1166 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: may
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1939 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 1930s California agriculture requests needing real home-movie footage of field machinery, harvest labor, and rural work routines for documentary or education edits.
Period detail: The open tractor, exposed combine platform, work clothes, dust, and black-and-white 8mm look may show late-1930s mechanized harvesting in a California field.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distance as workers ride and operate machinery, giving the scene an unstaged home-movie view of agricultural labor in progress.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tractor driver, two workers on a combine platform, tall control rods, exposed wheels, harvesting equipment, dust, open sky, and field ground.
Film character: The clip has soft monochrome exposure, visible grain, gate edges, frame jitter, and dust haze that read as authentic 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, rural labor cutaway, harvest transition, or period memory beat within a farming or California history sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually connects people and machinery in field work, showing farm labor during an era when harvesting was increasingly mechanized but still hands-on.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, likeness, and property considerations should be checked separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 California harvest footage, 8mm farm machinery, Depression-era agriculture, vintage combine, tractor in field, and home-movie farming scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1939 California rural scenes, then broader 1930s agriculture, harvest, tractor, and machinery material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 California 8mm frame showing workers on harvesting machinery with a tractor nearby in a bright, dusty field. — Workers stand on a harvesting machine while a tractor operates nearby in the field.

Workers appear on a combine platform as a tractor passes beside harvesting equipment in a California field, 1939. — Agricultural workers operate a tractor and combine during field harvesting.

A tractor driver moves near the side of a large harvesting machine, with workers partly visible on the platform in 1939 California footage. — A tractor moves past harvesting equipment while dust rises around the machinery.

The final frame shows a tractor driver beside a combine with workers on its upper platform in a dusty California harvest scene from 1939. — Workers remain on the combine platform as the tractor continues through the dusty field.

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