Michigan-1957: Woman Smoking While Working in Field

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationMichigan, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Michigan

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Woman Smoking While Working in Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures a woman in a black halter top and light-colored pants walking through a cultivated field in Michigan. She smiles and holds a cigarette as she moves between rows of young plants under an overcast sky. Another woman in a patterned dress and a man in a white shirt and blue cap appear briefly, all engaged in farm work. The footage shows natural film grain, slight motion blur, and the characteristic frame edges of an old home movie, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American rural scene.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127668135

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: 1957 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 requests needing 1950s American rural home-movie footage of field work, farm labor, or informal women-at-work moments for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The clothing, 8mm color stock, and metadata-supported 1957 Michigan setting place the scene in a mid-century rural context without visible landmarks or brands.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual, unstaged behavior: a woman smiles while holding a cigarette as adults move through crop rows during outdoor work.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a black halter top, cigarette, crop rows, sandy field soil, tree line, overcast sky, another woman in a dress, and a man in a cap.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, handheld framing, slight motion blur, and dark frame edges that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, rural labor cutaway, smoking-era detail, or memory beat between broader farm or family-life scenes.
Historical context: The footage may show informal family or community farm work in Michigan, with adults dressed for warm-weather field activity rather than posed documentation.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed; no logos, music, or obvious private property are visible, and copyright status is separate from depicted-person clearance.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1957 Michigan farm field home movie, woman smoking in crop rows, mid-century rural work, 8mm agricultural footage, and adults working outdoors.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1957 Michigan rural scenes, then broader mid-century farm work, tobacco, or outdoor labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1957 Michigan farm field, a woman in a black halter top smiles while holding a cigarette among rows of young plants. — A woman pauses with a cigarette in a cultivated field.

The woman walks through a Michigan farm field, holding a cigarette near her face as crop rows extend behind her. — The woman moves along the rows with a cigarette in hand.

A woman in a light patterned dress crosses the cultivated field, with another adult partly visible at the edge of the 8mm frame. — Another adult walks through the field during the work scene.

A man in a white shirt and blue cap bends near the crop rows in the Michigan field, with trees and overcast sky in the background. — A man bends toward the plants during field work.

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