Montana USA-1939: So Many Cows Are Running On The Big Field

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

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So Many Cows Are Running On The Big Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Montana USA in 1939 showing a large herd of black and white cows running across a wide open field. The grainy black and white film captures the animals in motion, with some frames showing them clustered near a long wooden fence or shelter in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics including film grain, slight motion blur, and dark borders typical of home movie cameras. The scene conveys a sense of rural life and agricultural activity in the American West during the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121488252

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for documentary or educational edits needing 1930s Montana ranching, cattle movement, or rural American West home-movie footage.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm image, open range, wooden shelter, and cattle handling scene support a late-1930s rural Montana context from the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distance as cattle move through the field, giving the clip an unstaged home-movie view of everyday ranch activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large herd of black-and-white cows, a wide open field, distant trees, low horizon, long wooden shelter or fence, dark film borders, and handheld framing.
Film character: The clip has coarse 8mm grain, soft focus, exposure variation, motion blur, and heavy gate borders that emphasize its original home-movie film source.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a rural insert, agricultural cutaway, transition, or memory beat within sequences about livestock, ranch life, or the American West.
Historical context: The footage visually places cattle movement in an open Montana field, offering context for rural agricultural life without identifying a specific ranch or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location ownership, and any property-release needs should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely researcher matches include 1939 Montana cattle footage, 8mm ranch home movie, black-and-white cows running in field, and rural American West livestock scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel ranch footage, then other Montana 1939 material, then broader 1930s cattle, farming, and rural West home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

Black-and-white 1939 Montana 8mm frame showing cattle clustered across a wide field near a distant wooden shelter or fence. — A herd of black-and-white cattle spreads across an open field near a long wooden structure.

Black-and-white 1939 Montana 8mm frame with cattle crossing a rural field beneath a long wooden shelter or fence line. — Cattle move along the field with a long wooden structure and bare trees behind them.

Black-and-white 1939 Montana 8mm frame showing cattle in motion across a wide field, with blur from handheld filming. — Cattle run through the field as the home-movie camera records the movement from a distance.

Black-and-white 1939 Montana 8mm frame showing a large cattle herd across the foreground with a wooden shelter behind it. — The herd fills the lower frame, with a long wooden shelter or fence stretching across the background.

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