Montana USA-1939: A Man Riding His Horse In A Big Field Full Of Cows

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

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A Man Riding His Horse In A Big Field Full Of Cows — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Montana USA in 1939 shows a man riding a horse across a vast rural field. The grainy black-and-white film captures the rider in period attire moving through an open landscape. The scene transitions to a herd of black and white cows grazing in the same field, with some animals walking across the frame. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics including film grain, slight motion blur, and dark borders, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of early 20th-century Americana.

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: 121487945

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: This clip fits requests for 1930s Montana rural life, ranch work, horseback travel, or cattle grazing in real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The rider's hat, open range setting, cattle, and black-and-white 8mm look support a late-1930s rural Montana reading from the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie perspective, observing a mounted man and grazing cattle without formal posing or controlled camera movement.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man on horseback, open field, distant horizon, grazing black-and-white cattle, tall grass, dark frame borders, and film dust.
Film character: The clip shows heavy 8mm grain, soft focus, motion blur, uneven exposure, gate borders, and dust that read as original home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, pastoral transition, rural memory beat, or cutaway between broader Montana or ranching sequences.
Historical context: The scene visually places people, horses, and cattle in an open agricultural landscape without proving a specific ranch, family, or event.
Research note: A person is visible on horseback, so likeness review may be needed, while copyright, location, and property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1930s Montana 8mm ranch footage, man riding horse in field, cattle grazing home movie, and rural American West archive.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Montana footage, then rural horseback, cattle, ranching, or open-field material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Montana 8mm frame showing a man on horseback moving through a wide rural field. — A mounted rider crosses an open field in soft black-and-white 8mm footage.

A motion-blurred rider and horse pass through an open Montana field in the 1939 home-movie clip. — The rider and horse appear blurred as they move across the field.

Black-and-white cattle graze in a wide rural Montana field, with distant land visible beyond them. — Cattle graze across the lower edge of a wide rural field.

Two black-and-white cattle stand and graze near taller grass in the Montana rural scene. — Cattle pause near taller grass beside the open pasture.

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