California USA-1939: Cowboy Falls Off Bucking Horse At Rodeo

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 California

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Cowboy Falls Off Bucking Horse At Rodeo — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from California, USA, 1939, capturing a dramatic moment at a rodeo. A cowboy in a white hat and dark clothing rides a bucking horse across a dusty arena, with spectators visible in the background. The clip shows the rider losing his balance and falling from the horse during a high-speed run. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: warm yellowish tint, grainy texture, and slight motion blur, conveying authentic mid-20th century Americana. The scene captures the raw energy and risk of early rodeo events.

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: 121487803

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 1166 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: may
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1939 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s California rodeo home-movie footage for productions needing a brief, authentic insert of a rider losing control in a dusty arena.
Period detail: The cowboy hat, open rodeo ground, distant spectators, and warm 8mm color may show late-1930s recreational rodeo culture in California.
Home-movie behavior: The camera follows the action from a spectator viewpoint, preserving the unpolished immediacy of a home-movie record rather than a staged sports film.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a bucking horse, a cowboy rider, a fall in progress, dusty arena ground, distant spectators, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The scan has soft focus, warm yellow-brown color, visible grain, gate edges, and handheld motion that read as original 8mm archival texture.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a quick rodeo danger insert, an Americana memory beat, or a transition from spectatorship to sudden action.
Historical context: The footage visually situates rodeo as a public outdoor event with animal handling, risk, and spectators gathered around an informal arena.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, performer rights, and venue or event permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1930s California rodeo, 8mm cowboy fall, home movie bucking horse, dusty arena spectators, and vintage Americana sports footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other California 1939 scenes, then broader rodeo, horse riding, cowboy, or rural recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 California 8mm frame showing a cowboy in a hat riding a bucking horse across a dusty rodeo ground. — A rider leans as the horse bucks near the arena edge.

A cropped 8mm rodeo view shows the rider and horse in motion, with the cowboy partly out of frame. — The handheld camera catches the rider and horse in a cropped moving view.

A cowboy in a light hat and dark clothing rides away across a California rodeo arena with spectators in the distance. — The rider moves away from the camera toward distant spectators.

A distant rodeo moment shows horses, riders, dust, and spectators around the arena as the action continues. — Dust rises as horses and riders move across the rodeo ground.

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