California USA-1939: Man Riding Horse In Field Near Farmhouses

$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.

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

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

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Man Riding Horse In Field Near Farmhouses — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from California, USA, in 1939, showing a man riding a horse across a rural field. The shirtless rider navigates the horse past simple farm buildings and trees under a bright sky. The clip exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural color fading, and visible grain, scratches, and dust. The perspective appears to be shot from inside a structure, looking out through a doorway or window, with dark framing on the sides. This authentic archival footage captures a moment of rural life and recreation in the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121487887

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: Supports requests for late-1930s California rural recreation or home-movie ranch life for documentary, museum, education, or period atmosphere edits.
Period detail: The shirtless rider, open field, simple farm buildings, fence posts, and bright rural setting may show informal California countryside life in 1939.
Home-movie behavior: The rider appears casually filmed from inside or behind a shaded opening, giving the moment an unstaged family-observer quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a shirtless man on horseback, another standing man, open fields, fence posts, low farm structures, trees, bright sky, and dark doorway framing.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, uneven exposure, handheld framing, visible dust, scratches, gate edges, and slight blur that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a rural-life insert, memory beat, horseback recreation cutaway, or transition into a 1930s countryside sequence.
Historical context: The footage presents informal leisure around horses and farm buildings without enough visible detail to identify the property, people, or local event.
Research note: People are visible and likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, but copyright, location, property, and personal rights should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1939 California 8mm horseback riding, rural farm home movie, man on horse in field, and Depression-era countryside footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel farm or family footage, then California 1939 rural material, then broader 1930s horseback, agriculture, and countryside recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 California home-movie frame showing a shirtless man on horseback passing a dark doorway or window edge near open fields. — A rider on horseback passes through a rural view framed by dark interior edges.

The rider and horse move across the frame in profile against the open countryside.

A shirtless rider on horseback passes near low farm buildings and trees in soft 1939 California 8mm footage. — The horse and rider pass in front of low rural structures and a bright field.

A rider sits on a horse in an open field while another shirtless man stands nearby, with fence posts and rural land behind them. — A horseback rider pauses or moves slowly near a standing man beside a fence line.

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