California-1939: Man Riding A Farm Tractor

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

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Man Riding A Farm Tractor — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a farmer operating a tractor while others work nearby in a California field. Men in hats and work clothes stand on and around the machinery, engaged in tilling the soil. The grainy black-and-white footage shows the tractor moving across the land, with a large agricultural implement visible in the background. The scene evokes a sense of rural labor and mid-20th century farming 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: 127570885

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s California agricultural home-movie footage for documentary edits needing rural labor, tractor work, or farm mechanization context.
Period detail: The open tractor, brimmed work hats, and black-and-white 8mm image support the 1939 rural California setting in the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: Men appear to work and observe around the tractor without staging, giving the scene the casual timing of a family or local farm record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tractor, men in hats, dust or light soil, a field, a large farm implement, rails or frame bars, and open sky.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm grain, high outdoor exposure, gate edges, and slight blur that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or cutaway for farm work, rural memory, or agricultural technology sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually places manual farm labor and tractor operation together, showing people gathered around machinery in an open California field.
Research note: People are visible and likeness review may be needed; no logos, audible music, children, or clearly private property are apparent from the supplied frames.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1939 California farm tractor, 1930s 8mm agriculture footage, men working in field, and vintage rural home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 California farm scenes, then broader tractor, tilling, and rural labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 California 8mm frame showing men in work hats gathered on and beside a farm tractor in an open field. — Men stand on and near a tractor during field work.

A large farm implement or rail-like frame appears in a California field within the 1939 home-movie footage. — A broad farm implement stands across the field.

1939 California 8mm frame showing a long agricultural implement across an open field, with indistinct activity near the right edge. — A long implement spans the field in soft 8mm focus.

A man in a brimmed hat appears to ride or operate farm machinery in a 1939 California field, partly obscured by motion blur. — A man operates machinery as the frame blurs past.

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