St Paul Minnesota USA-1962: A Boy Rides A Cow In A Corral While Whipping Its Flanks

$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.

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

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

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A Boy Rides A Cow In A Corral While Whipping Its Flanks — Clip Details

A young boy in a cap rides a cow through a fenced corral in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1962. The grainy 8mm footage captures the boy holding a stick, gently whipping the cow's flanks as he guides it through the enclosure. The scene unfolds under a pale sky, with a wooden fence and distant fields visible in the background. The vintage film quality, with its soft focus and color shifts, evokes a nostalgic, candid home movie atmosphere from the early 1960s.

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: 120814341

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: This 1962 8mm clip can support archive requests for early-1960s rural or fairground animal handling scenes in a U.S. home-movie context.
Period detail: The soft color 8mm stock, cap, wooden corral fencing, open fields, and simple farm setting may show mid-20th-century recreational livestock handling in Minnesota.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has unstaged home-movie value in the way the rider moves through the corral while nearby cattle and fencing remain casually framed.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a young male rider in a cap, a dark cow, other cattle, wooden corral rails, open fields, a pale sky, and intermittent farm structures or equipment.
Film character: The clip carries dense 8mm grain, soft focus, muted color shifts, and handheld framing that give the scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief rural-life insert, animal-handling cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about farms, fairs, or childhood recreation in the early 1960s.
Historical context: The scene visually reflects informal livestock interaction in an open corral, but the exact event or ownership context is not identifiable from the frames alone.
Research note: People and animals are visible, so use should consider likeness and animal-treatment context separately from copyright, with no logos or clear private interiors visible in the supplied frames.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1960s 8mm boy riding cow, vintage Minnesota farm corral, home movie cattle enclosure, and Super 8 rural animal handling.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1962 St. Paul or Minnesota material, then broader 1960s farm, corral, cattle, and home-movie childhood scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In this 1962 St. Paul, Minnesota 8mm frame, a young male rider in a cap sits on a dark cow inside a wooden corral with other cattle and open fields behind him. — Rider on a cow inside the corral.

A soft-focus 1962 8mm frame shows the rider leaning forward on a dark cow in a corral, with a white-faced cow and fence rails visible nearby. — Rider leans forward among cattle.

The 1962 home-movie frame shows the cap-wearing rider on a cow moving through a fenced corral, with cattle close to the camera and farmland in the distance. — Cow rider moves through the enclosure.

In the final 1962 8mm frame, several cattle cluster in the corral and the rider is partly obscured near the fence against open fields and a pale sky. — Cattle cluster around the rider in the corral.

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