United States-1957: Boy, Woman and Grey-Haired Man Picking Corn Beside a Grazing Sheep

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationUnited States
Duration9s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

harvest
farm life
childhood
family outing
autumn
rural America
working together

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · static
Setting: outdoor · Dry autumn cornfield on a farm, with a grassy hillside, trees and blue sky behind
Time and weather: midday · autumn · sunny
Lighting: Bright direct sunlight with strong contrast
People: 3 · A grey-haired older man in a dark green work shirt and jeans, a woman in a white sweater, jeans and a white hair band, and a small boy in a pale lilac sweater, red neckerchief and dark trousers
Animals: sheep
Objects: dry corn stalks · ears of corn · white paper bag
Colors: golden yellow · green · white · dark green · red
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The boy pulls an ear from the stalks as the grey-haired man holds a white bag open and a sheep grazes at left.
A woman in a white sweater walks in behind the boy and begins picking.
The man bends into the stalks while the boy drops his ear into the bag.
The man looks up at the camera and smiles.
The woman reaches across the stalks as the boy turns away to the left.

Boy, Woman and Grey-Haired Man Picking Corn Beside a... — Clip Details

Likely the northeastern United States, circa 1957, home movie footage of three people harvesting a dry autumn cornfield. A small boy in a pale sweater and red neckerchief pulls ears from the stalks while a grey-haired man holds a white paper bag open beside him and a white sheep grazes at the left edge. A woman in a white sweater and hair band steps in behind them, and the man looks up and smiles at the camera. Filmed as one handheld medium shot on colour 8mm in bright sunshine.

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: 9s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001740

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$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.

Minors are visible. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip, and a sensitive-use review is recommended.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: Yes
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1957 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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: Serves requests for authentic circa-1950s American farm and harvest scenes with children, for documentaries, education pieces and nostalgia-driven commercial work.
Period detail: The boy's knit sweater and red neckerchief, the woman's white sweater, jeans and hair band, and the colour palette may show late-1950s dress and film stock.
Home-movie behavior: An unstaged moment of a child helping adults pick corn, ending with the older man glancing up and smiling at whoever holds the camera.
What appears in frame: A small boy pulling ears from dry stalks, a grey-haired man holding a white paper bag, a woman picking behind them, a grazing white sheep, and a green hillside under blue sky.
Film character: Saturated colour 8mm with golden stalks, a cool violet cast in the whites, fine grain, slight softness and handheld drift typical of projected home-movie film.
Edit role: Works as a harvest insert, a memory beat for a farm-childhood story, or a warm closer using the man's smile to camera.
Historical context: Shows small-scale hand harvesting on a family farm visit, the kind of autumn weekend scene recorded on amateur colour 8mm in mid-century America.
Research note: The film's copyright is separate from the likeness rights of the identifiable unnamed adults and minor shown, and the farm is likely private property; seek releases as your use requires.
Research search match: 1950s family picking corn, vintage child farm harvest, colour 8mm home movie cornfield, autumn farm weekend circa 1957, sheep in cornfield footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's children husking corn, boy hugging pet goat, man feeding goat and family leaving the red barn with kittens, then other circa-1957 farm footage, then harvest themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Boy picks corn beside a grey-haired man holding a white bag as a sheep grazes, autumn farm, likely northeastern US, circa 1957 — A boy pulls an ear from dry stalks while an older man holds the bag open, circa 1957.
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Woman, boy and grey-haired man pick ears from a dry cornfield with a sheep nearby, colour 8mm, United States, circa 1957 — A woman joins the boy and the older man among the stalks as a sheep grazes beside them.
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Boy fills a white bag held by a grey-haired man as a woman husks an ear, sunny autumn cornfield, likely northeastern US, circa 1957 — The boy drops his ear of corn into the bag on a sunny autumn day, circa 1957.
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Woman reaches into dry stalks while a boy in a red neckerchief steps aside on a farm, home movie, United States, circa 1957 — The woman reaches for another ear as the boy turns away and the man keeps the bag open.
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