St Paul Minnesota USA-1962: Boy Riding Cow In The Dark

$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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Boy Riding Cow In The Dark — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from St. Paul, Minnesota, 1962, showing a young boy riding a cow in complete darkness. The boy, wearing a light-colored shirt and dark pants, is seen from behind as he sits atop the animal. The cow, a light-colored domestic breed, moves slowly through the dark, with only faint ambient light revealing their forms. The grainy, low-light quality of the Super 8 film captures a candid, nostalgic moment of rural Americana. The scene is quiet and intimate, with the boy appearing calm and the cow steady, creating a surreal and humorous image of childhood adventure. This archival footage offers a unique glimpse into mid-century family life and rural traditions.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120814476

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 1960s 8mm home-movie clip supports archive requests for unusual rural or family-life inserts showing a child riding a cow in very low light.
Period detail: The metadata places the footage in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1962, while the visible frames mainly show period home-movie exposure, grain, and informal animal handling rather than date-specific objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged family-film quality, with the rider seen from behind as the cow moves slowly through darkness.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small rider in a pale shirt, dark pants, a light-colored cow, deep black background, faint vertical structures, heavy shadow, and soft film grain.
Film character: The 8mm image has dense low-light exposure, visible grain, soft focus, muted color, and slight handheld framing that give it a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, odd childhood cutaway, or atmospheric transition within a sequence about family films, animals, rural play, or mid-century Americana.
Historical context: The scene suggests informal child-and-animal interaction recorded in a family context, but the frames do not identify the exact setting beyond the supplied St. Paul, Minnesota metadata.
Research note: A person who appears to be a child is visible from behind, so likeness and minor-related review may be needed even though no faces, logos, audible music, or clearly identifiable private property are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches might include 1960s 8mm home movie boy riding cow, child on cow at night, rural family footage with cow, and St. Paul Minnesota home movie animal scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1962 St. Paul or Minnesota home movies, and then with related family, farm-animal, childhood, or nighttime rural scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1962 home-movie footage identified as St. Paul, Minnesota, a small rider seen from behind sits on a light-colored cow against a nearly black background. — Rider on cow in deep shadow.

The rider remains seated on the cow in a very dark 1962 8mm frame, with only the pale shirt and the animal's light body clearly catching the available light. — Cow and rider moving through darkness.

A small rider in a light shirt sits on the cow as the low-light 8mm frame shows more black space and faint background structure around the figures. — Rider and cow partly lost in shadow.

The final frame shows the rider and cow farther into the dark scene, with the rider centered and the cow's lighter head or body shape visible to the right. — Cow and rider fading into low light.

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