California-1939: Man Walks Alongside Harvester Machine On A Bright Sunny Day

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 California

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Man Walks Alongside Harvester Machine On A Bright Sunny Day — Clip Details

A grainy 8mm home movie from 1939 captures a rural agricultural scene in California. A man in a hat walks alongside a large harvester machine, with another individual operating a tractor-like vehicle. The footage, shot on vintage 8mm film, shows the machinery in motion across a dusty field under a bright, overcast sky. The image quality is characteristic of home movies from the era, with visible film grain, scratches, and a slightly faded monochrome look. The scene evokes a sense of mid-century American farm life and agricultural labor.

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: 127570677

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 edits needing real 8mm home-movie footage of mechanized field work and rural labor.
Period detail: The tractor-style power unit, open harvester structure, hats, and dusty open field may show late-1930s farm machinery and working dress.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distance as workers ride and walk with the machine, giving the scene an unstaged family-film record of field labor.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an open field, crawler tractor, harvester rig, adult workers, dust or haze, pale sky, film gate edges, and surface scratches.
Film character: The clip has soft monochrome exposure, visible grain, dust, scratches, and contact-print framing that read as physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or cutaway for mechanized farming, Depression-era rural life, or California field work.
Historical context: The footage visually places people and machinery in a working agricultural landscape without identifying the farm, crop, workers, or owner.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, but copyright, location, and property status require separate checks.
Research search match: Researchers may find it under 1939 California 8mm farming, vintage harvester footage, home movie agricultural machinery, or rural field labor.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 California farm scenes, then broader 1930s agriculture and machinery footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 California 8mm frame showing workers on and beside a harvester pulled through a bright dusty field. — Workers ride and walk with a harvester in an open agricultural field.

Distant 1939 California farm scene with a tractor-style unit pulling an open harvester carrying several workers. — A tractor and harvester move through the field with workers aboard.

Wide 8mm home-movie frame of a bright agricultural field with parts of farm machinery at the bottom edge. — The camera holds a wide view of the field as machinery passes partly out of frame.

Partial 1939 California 8mm view of a harvester structure and operator area against a bright field. — The harvester passes close to the frame edge, leaving the machine partly cropped.

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