California-1939: Industrial Farm Equipment Being Used In A Field During An

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

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Industrial Farm Equipment Being Used In A Field During An — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures industrial farm equipment operating in a vast California field. The grainy black-and-white footage shows several early tractors or cultivators moving across the flat landscape under a bright sky. The camera remains stationary, offering a wide view of the agricultural machinery at work during the harvest season. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into early 20th-century farming practices and rural 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: 127570714

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s California agriculture requests needing a brief factual cutaway of mechanized field work in a rural landscape.
Period detail: The wide view may show early mechanized farm implements or cultivators moving across a flat field, consistent with the 1939 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The stationary distant framing feels like a bystander or family filmmaker observing farm equipment at work rather than a staged industrial film.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad open field, bright sky, several small farm machines, a flat horizon, dust or pale ground texture, and heavy 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The clip has a grainy black-and-white 8mm look with soft focus, high exposure, gate edges, and contact-print texture that signal original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, rural transition, or establishing cutaway for mechanized farming, harvest labor, or Depression-era agricultural context.
Historical context: The footage visually places farm work within a large open California field and suggests the increasing presence of machinery in rural production.
Research note: No people, logos, or private structures are visible, but users should still clear copyright and verify any property or equipment identification before release.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 California farm equipment, 1930s 8mm agriculture, vintage tractor field work, and home-movie rural machinery footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1939 California material, then broader scenes of farming, harvest, tractors, and rural work.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 California home-movie frame showing small farm machines spread across a flat field beneath a pale sky. — Several distant farm machines operate across a broad, flat field.

Distant agricultural equipment appears along the horizon of a flat California field in grainy 1939 8mm footage. — Small agricultural machines move across the distant field line.

Grainy black-and-white frame of farm equipment working in a broad California field, shot from a distant fixed viewpoint. — Farm machinery remains distant within the wide rural landscape.

Late frame of the 1939 California field scene, with several small machines visible near the horizon through 8mm film texture. — The machines continue across the field near the low horizon.

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