Montana USA-1939: Cowboy Wrangling Cattle on the Prairie

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

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Cowboy Wrangling Cattle on the Prairie — Clip Details

Black-and-white 8mm home movie footage from Montana USA in 1939 shows a cowboy on horseback in a vast prairie landscape. The grainy, vintage film captures the rider moving across open terrain, with cattle visible in a fenced enclosure in the distance. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, film grain, and dark frame borders. The scene evokes a nostalgic, authentic slice of American frontier life, with the cowboy actively engaged in ranch work 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: 121488208

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s American West or ranch-life requests needing brief documentary inserts of a cowboy, open prairie, and cattle handling in home-movie 8mm footage.
Period detail: The mounted rider, open range setting, fenced cattle enclosure, and black-and-white 8mm handling support the supplied 1939 Montana ranch context without identifying a specific ranch or town.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observer quality, with the camera watching a rider move across rough prairie rather than presenting a posed or studio view of ranch work.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a cowboy on horseback, open prairie, low scrub, distant horizon, dark film gate borders, a fenced cattle group, and soft overcast sky.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, frame-edge vignetting, and slight handheld drift give the footage a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a ranch-life insert, frontier-memory transition, rural Montana cutaway, or brief visual bridge into 1930s Western land-use material.
Historical context: The scene visually situates cattle work within a broad prairie landscape, showing ranch labor at a distance rather than close portraits or identifiable social details.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos or clear private interiors are visible, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1930s Montana cowboy home movie, black-and-white 8mm ranch footage, cattle wrangling on prairie, and vintage American West film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Montana material, then broader cowboy, cattle, prairie, and rural Western home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A distant cowboy figure appears on open Montana prairie in black-and-white 8mm footage, with low scrub and dark frame borders. — Distant cowboy figure on open prairie under a pale sky.

Open prairie terrain in the Montana ranch sequence, with low brush, soft focus, and black 8mm frame edges. — Open prairie terrain with sparse brush and a distant horizon.

A cowboy on horseback moves across rough Montana prairie in grainy black-and-white 8mm home-movie footage. — Mounted cowboy crossing the prairie landscape.

Cattle appear gathered behind fencing in the Montana prairie scene, seen at a distance through soft black-and-white 8mm footage. — Distant cattle gathered behind a fence on the prairie.

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