South Dakota-1953: Tractor Moves Away as a Wooden Hay Lift Rises

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationSouth Dakota, United States
Duration7s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 · South Dakota, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

agricultural work
rural mechanization
hay handling
farm equipment
observation
everyday rural life

Shot type: wide
Camera: handheld · pan · tilt · Approximately eye level, looking slightly upward as the platform rises
Setting: outdoor · Open agricultural grassland with a low horizon
Time and weather: Daylight with low-angle sunlight · Undetermined; dry golden grass · Dry with a pale, largely clear sky
Lighting: Warm directional sunlight with long shadows and darker foreground areas
People: 3 · A brimmed-hat tractor driver and two onlookers beside the lift; one wears a checked short-sleeved shirt, shorts and light socks, while the other wears a brimmed hat and dark trousers.
Vehicles: older agricultural tractor · rounded passenger car
Objects: wooden hay lift · forked lifting platform · long tines · timber support frame · cables · inclined lifting members · brimmed hats
Colors: ochre · brown · pale blue-gray · muted cream · dark red
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A hat-wearing driver moves the tractor left beside the low forked platform.
The platform rises as the tractor approaches the left edge.
The view shifts toward the wooden structure, two onlookers and a parked car.
The elevated fork and its inclined supports dominate the final view.

Tractor Moves Away as a Wooden Hay Lift Rises — Clip Details

Probably South Dakota, circa 1953 home movie footage shows a tractor moving left across an open field as the forked platform of a large wooden hay lift rises. A person in a checked shirt and shorts stands beside the apparatus, with another hat-wearing onlooker and a parked car appearing as the view shifts right. The continuous wide shot follows the lifting mechanism, showing its timber supports, cables and long projecting tines.

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: 7s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800004154

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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: 1953 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: South Dakota, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports documentary and museum requests for circa 1953 agricultural machinery, showing a tractor moving away as a wooden hay lift rises.
Period detail: The older tractor, rounded passenger car, brimmed hats and timber lifting structure support an early postwar rural setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera follows an ordinary equipment operation while two nearby onlookers watch without visibly addressing the lens.
What appears in frame: The shot contains a tractor and driver, a forked wooden platform, tall timber supports, cables, two onlookers and a parked car.
Film character: Soft projected-film detail, muted warm color, visible grain, dust, scratches and uneven exposure give the scene its archival texture.
Edit role: Works as a short process insert, with a clear progression from the departing tractor to the elevated fork.
Historical context: The visible operation combines tractor power with a large timber lifting structure, placing agricultural machinery alongside people watching at close range.
Research note: People, a vehicle and farm equipment are visible; copyright licensing is separate from likeness and property permissions, and faces, ages and ownership are not established.
Research search match: Matches searches for circa 1953 farm home movies, tractor-assisted hay lifting and wooden agricultural equipment, probably in South Dakota.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with Gathering loose hay and Climbing onto a tractor from this reel, then with provisionally South Dakota footage from circa 1953, followed by other hay handling operations.

Still Frames From This Clip

Probably South Dakota, circa 1953: a tractor driver passes a low forked hay platform beside a checked-shirt onlooker in open grassland. — The tractor moves left as the wooden lifting platform begins to rise.
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A rising wooden hay fork and departing tractor in open farmland, probably South Dakota, circa 1953. — The empty forked platform lifts clear of the ground as the tractor moves out of view.
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Probably South Dakota, circa 1953: two onlookers watch a raised wooden hay platform beside a parked period car. — The camera centers the lifting structure, revealing a second onlooker and the parked car.
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An elevated timber hay lift above two onlookers in a grass field, probably South Dakota, circa 1953, with a rounded car at right. — The fork reaches its highest visible position above the onlookers and parked car.
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