Montana USA-1939: Couple Riding Horses In Open Field With Hay Bales

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationMontana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Montana

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Couple Riding Horses In Open Field With Hay Bales — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Montana USA in 1939 shows a couple riding horses across an open, grassy field. The grainy black-and-white film captures two riders on horseback, one wearing a hat, moving through a rural landscape with a large hay bale and fence line in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics including visible grain, light scratches, and dark frame borders, conveying a nostalgic, authentic slice of mid-20th century Americana. The couple appears to be engaged in casual conversation while riding, capturing a moment of rural recreation and companionship.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121487897

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: 1939 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: Montana, 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: 1930s Montana home-movie footage for documentary or museum edits needing rural horseback recreation and everyday open-range leisure.
Period detail: The riders, horses, fence line, haystack, and open pasture may show late-1930s rural Montana ranch or farm surroundings.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie moment of two adults riding together and pausing near one another in a field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two mounted riders, horses, an open grassy field, a fence line, haystacks, distant low hills, and dark 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The black-and-white 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, scratches, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural Americana insert, horseback recreation cutaway, transition, or brief memory beat within a family or ranch sequence.
Historical context: The scene suggests casual outdoor recreation or ranch-life proximity without proving occupation, ownership, or a specific event.
Research note: People are visible but not identified, so likeness, privacy, and any location or property questions should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Montana 8mm home movie horseback riding, rural couple on horses, haystack field, and Depression-era ranch leisure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other 1939 Montana rural scenes, and then with broader horseback riding, ranch life, or home-movie recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Montana home-movie footage, two riders on horseback move through an open field with a fence line and haystack behind them. — Two riders guide horses across a rural field near haystacks.

A mounted rider appears in a Montana field, facing away from the camera with a large haystack and fence line in the background. — A rider moves away from the camera across the field.

Two adults on horseback appear to pause or converse in a rural Montana field with haystacks and fencing behind them. — Two mounted riders face each other in the pasture.

Two mounted riders in 1939 Montana stand in an open field, one wearing a hat, with a haystack and low hills visible behind them. — The riders and horses pause together in the rural landscape.

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