St Paul Minnesota USA-1962: Boy Sitting On Cow Whips Cow

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Boy Sitting On Cow Whips Cow — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1962 in St. Paul, Minnesota, showing a young boy sitting bareback on a cow in a rural pasture. The boy, wearing a dark shirt and light-colored hat, holds a whip while interacting with the cattle. The scene unfolds in a grassy field bordered by a wooden fence under a pale sky, with natural daylight casting soft shadows. The film exhibits characteristic grain, color fading, and slight motion blur typical of amateur Super 8 footage from the early 1960s. The boy appears to be guiding or playfully riding the cow, capturing a candid moment of rural Americana and childhood nostalgia.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120814322

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1962 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: Useful for documentary or museum edits needing early-1960s 8mm rural Midwestern family footage with a child interacting with cattle in a pasture.
Period detail: The frames may show 1962 St. Paul, Minnesota area farm life through visible cattle, fencing, open fields, simple clothing, and the soft color rendering of amateur 8mm film.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value in the way the child sits bareback on the cow while an unseen camera records the brief farmyard moment from nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a child on a cow, several cattle, a pale hat, a dark shirt, pasture grass, fence lines, open sky, and distant rural structures or field edges.
Film character: The footage carries a physical 8mm texture with heavy grain, faded color, soft focus, low contrast, and slight handheld motion blur.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, childhood memory beat, rural-life cutaway, or transitional image within a farm, family, or Americana sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for informal rural childhood and animal handling in a home-movie setting without establishing the specific farm, family, or occasion.
Research note: People and a likely minor are visible, so likeness and child-related review may be needed, while copyright and any property or animal-use concerns should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1960s 8mm farm boy on cow, Minnesota home movie cattle pasture, child riding cow vintage footage, and rural Americana home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1962 St. Paul or Minnesota material, then with broader farm childhood, cattle pasture, and rural home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 home-movie frame from the St. Paul, Minnesota metadata showing a child in a light hat seated bareback on a cow among cattle in a fenced pasture. — Child seated on cow in pasture.

A grainy 8mm frame shows the child riding or sitting on a cow while several cattle stand close together in a fenced rural field. — Child among cattle in fenced field.

The child remains seated on the cow in a low-exposure 8mm frame, with cattle clustered around and a fence crossing the background field. — Child remains seated as cattle cluster nearby.

A faded 1962 8mm frame shows the child in a pale hat on a cow beside other cattle, with pasture fencing and rural fields behind them. — Child on cow beside other cattle.

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