Montana USA-1939: Cows Grazing On Rural Property With A Small Water Reservoir

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

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Cows Grazing On Rural Property With A Small Water Reservoir — Clip Details

Black and white vintage 8mm home movie footage from Montana USA in 1939, showing a herd of black and white cows grazing in a rural pasture. The grainy, low-resolution film captures the animals moving across open fields with a small water reservoir visible in the distance. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics including film grain, slight motion blur, and dark vignetting around the edges. The scene depicts a quiet, pastoral moment on a farm property, with cows scattered across the landscape under an overcast sky.

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: 121487956

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: Useful for 1930s rural Montana archive requests needing livestock, pasture, and small-reservoir cutaways for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The 8mm black-and-white home-movie look and open ranch landscape support the stated 1939 Montana setting, though no visible signage or landmark confirms the exact place.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes cattle from a distance in an unstaged farm or ranch moment, preserving ordinary grazing behavior rather than a formal agricultural demonstration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include black-and-white cattle, rough pasture, brush, low hills, a small water reservoir, muddy ground, and dark frame-edge vignetting.
Film character: The footage has a grainy black-and-white 8mm texture with soft focus, handheld framing, motion blur, and heavy dark edges from the film gate or lens.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural livestock insert, pastoral transition, agricultural cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1930s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents cattle grazing around open pasture and water on a rural property, offering context for everyday ranch or farm landscapes in Montana.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Montana 8mm cattle grazing, rural pasture home movie, black-and-white ranch footage, and cows near reservoir.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1939 Montana rural scenes, then broader 1930s ranching, livestock, and pasture material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Black-and-white 1939 Montana 8mm frame showing a small group of cows grazing in open pasture beside tall brush. — Cattle graze along the edge of a rural pasture.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from rural Montana showing cattle crossing a grassy field with dense brush in the background. — Cows move across a grassy area near brush.

A lone cow stands in a wide rural Montana pasture, with low hills and a small water reservoir visible beyond. — A lone cow stands in open pasture near distant water.

Black-and-white 1939 Montana frame showing cows beside brush and muddy ground near a small rural water reservoir. — Cows stand near brush at the edge of a small reservoir.

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