Montana USA-1939: Large Number Of Cattle Grazing On A Beautiful Property With

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

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Large Number Of Cattle Grazing On A Beautiful Property With — Clip Details

Black-and-white vintage 8mm home movie footage from Montana USA in 1939, showing a large herd of cattle with black and white markings grazing in an open field. The cows stand closely together, many looking directly at the camera, creating a sense of curiosity. The scene unfolds under an overcast sky with rolling hills in the background, captured with the characteristic grain and soft focus of archival film. The footage has a nostalgic, documentary feel, with natural movement and a slightly shaky camera typical of home movies from the era.

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: 121488350

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing 1930s Montana ranching or rural cattle-grazing footage for documentary, museum, educational, or period agricultural edits.
Period detail: The open range, black-and-white cattle, rolling hills, and 8mm home-movie texture may show late-1930s ranch life in Montana without identifiable built landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds close to a clustered herd as cattle look toward the lens, giving the scene an unstaged observer's view of livestock in a field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dense cattle herd, black-and-white markings, open grassland, rolling hills, overcast sky, distant brush, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, handheld framing, and contact-print edge shadows that support its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural insert, agricultural cutaway, regional transition, or quiet memory beat within a sequence about ranching or land use.
Historical context: The footage places cattle in a broad Montana landscape, offering visual context for rural livestock work and open grazing without making specific claims about ownership or operations.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, livestock ownership, and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Montana cattle footage, 1930s ranching home movie, black-and-white 8mm grazing herd, and rural American livestock landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel ranch or travel scenes, then other 1939 Montana material, then broader 1930s American agriculture and cattle-grazing footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Montana 8mm frame showing a dense herd of black-and-white cattle facing the camera in open grassland under an overcast sky. — Cattle cluster in an open Montana field with hills in the distance.

1939 Montana home-movie frame with cattle gathered across open pasture, several looking toward the camera, and low hills beyond. — A broad group of cattle stands across the pasture facing the camera.

1939 Montana 8mm still showing cattle crowded near the camera in an open field, with distant rolling terrain and soft film grain. — Cattle stand close together in the foreground of a broad grazing field.

1939 Montana frame showing cattle near the lens, more animals across the field, and low brush or trees beyond the pasture. — Foreground cattle face the camera as the herd extends into the field behind them.

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