Montana USA-1939: Old Video Of Cowboy Riding His Horse Viewing The Cattle

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

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Old Video Of Cowboy Riding His Horse Viewing The Cattle — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Montana USA in 1939, showing a cowboy on horseback observing cattle in a rural farm setting. The black-and-white film captures a young cow with a white face standing near a wooden fence in a muddy field, followed by a shot of the cow walking away. The scene transitions to two cowboys riding horses across an open field, with sparse vegetation and a flat horizon under an overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, natural lighting, and a handheld camera perspective, conveying authentic early 20th-century ranch life.

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: 121488065

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s Montana ranch-life footage suited to documentary or museum edits needing brief cattle, cowboy, and rural work context.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm look, wooden fencing, open pasture, and ranch animals may show late-1930s rural Montana daily farm surroundings.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, watching cattle and ranch movement from close range rather than presenting a formal agricultural record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white-faced cow, muddy ground, wooden fence rails, open pasture, grass, and soft rural horizon detail.
Film character: The clip carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, variable exposure, and handheld framing that give it clear physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, rural transition, cattle cutaway, or memory beat within a Western ranch or farm sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents everyday ranch imagery, with cattle and horseback work suggesting a working rural landscape without identifying a named ranch or event.
Research note: People are flagged in the clip metadata, so likeness review may be needed even though copyright, location, and property clearance are separate questions.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s Montana ranch footage, 8mm cattle home movie, cowboy horseback pasture, and vintage farm animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Montana material, then broader ranching, cattle, cowboy, and rural work footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Montana 8mm frame of a white-faced cow standing near wooden fencing in a muddy ranch field. — A white-faced cow stands close to a wooden fence on muddy ranch ground.

A white-faced cow stands partly turned beside ranch fencing in 1939 Montana home-movie footage. — The cow remains beside the fence, partly turned toward the camera.

Blurred 8mm frame of a cow moving across open Montana pasture in the 1939 ranch footage. — A cow moves quickly across the field, softened by motion blur.

Two cattle stand in a grassy Montana field, including a white-faced animal, in 1939 8mm ranch footage. — Two cattle stand together in a sparse grassy pasture.

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