Michigan-1958: Farmers Checking On Corn In Countryside Fields

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationMichigan, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Michigan

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Farmers Checking On Corn In Countryside Fields — Clip Details

MICHIGAN-1958: A farmer in a white sweater and cap inspects corn stalks in a sun-drenched field, carefully husking an ear of corn. A woman in a floral dress joins him, and they examine the crop together, sharing a quiet moment of rural life. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie captures the textures of mid-century farming with natural color and film grain, evoking nostalgia for 1950s Americana and agricultural heritage.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127612371

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 1210 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: bill's first birthday,blueberry field
Reel-level year note: 1956-1957-1958
Reel-level location note: michigan
Date: 1958 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: Michigan, 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 1950s rural Michigan agriculture sequences needing authentic home-movie views of adults checking corn in a countryside field.
Period detail: The clothing, 8mm color stock, open farm field, and parked car may show mid-century rural life consistent with the 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The adults appear absorbed in a practical crop check, giving the scene an unstaged family or farm-visit quality rather than a posed portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include corn rows, an adult man in a light sweater and cap, an adult woman in a floral dress, a husked ear of corn, open fields, trees, and a parked car.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of a scanned home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural agriculture cutaway, a memory beat, or a transition between broader countryside and food-production scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually documents everyday crop inspection in a small-scale rural setting without proving ownership, farm identity, or a specific agricultural event.
Research note: Adults are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright status should be evaluated separately from personal rights.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 Michigan 8mm corn field footage, vintage farmers inspecting crops, rural home movie agriculture, and mid-century countryside scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Michigan 1958 rural footage, then broader vintage farming, corn harvest, or countryside family-life material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a Michigan 1958 home-movie frame, a man in a cap and white sweater inspects an ear of corn beside rows of stalks. — A man checks corn at the edge of a sunlit field.

A man in a cap and a woman in a floral dress look down near corn rows in rural Michigan, with a parked car partly visible. — Two adults examine the crop near a parked car.

The man bends over the corn as the woman watches nearby, framed by rows of stalks and open countryside. — The pair look closely at the corn in the field.

A man in a light sweater holds corn while speaking near a woman and the open rear of a parked car by the field. — The man holds the corn near the car at the field edge.

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