Montana USA-1939: Rancher With Cows On Open Plains, Dog Running Near Fence

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

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Rancher With Cows On Open Plains, Dog Running Near Fence — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Montana USA in 1939 shows a rancher in a hat and work clothes walking through a grassy field with a herd of black and white cows. The scene captures rural life on an open plain with rolling hills in the background, a wooden fence line, and a dog running across the landscape. The grainy black-and-white film has a distinct vintage quality with natural lighting and a handheld camera perspective, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of mid-20th century American ranching.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121488432

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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: Useful for 1930s documentary requests needing rural Montana ranching, open-range cattle, and home-movie views of American plains life.
Period detail: The 1939 8mm metadata and black-and-white ranch setting may show prewar rural dress, fencing, and cattle-grazing patterns on open plains.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, following cattle, a rancher, and a running dog across a field rather than presenting a formal scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include black-and-white cattle, a low fence line, open grassland, rolling hills, a distant ranch figure, and heavy film-frame edges.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, gate shadows, and handheld framing.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural-life insert, ranching cutaway, landscape transition, or memory beat in a Montana or American West sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents ranch work and livestock movement in a sparsely built plains landscape without supporting claims about a named ranch or event.
Research note: People are flagged as visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and property questions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Montana 8mm ranch footage, home movie cattle on plains, rural American West fence line, and dog near herd.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Montana 1939 ranch material, then broader 1930s cattle, plains, and rural labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Montana home-movie frame showing distant cattle on open plains with rolling hills and a fence line. — Cattle graze or move across an open field beneath low hills.

Black-and-white 8mm view of cattle on a Montana plain, with fencing and hills visible in the distance. — Cows stand and walk across fenced ranch land with hills beyond.

1939 Montana ranch scene with cattle near a fence line and a small distant figure or animal on the plain. — Cattle move near a fence across a wide ranch field.

Black-and-white Montana ranch frame showing a cow near a fence on open plains, with low hills behind. — A cow moves along the fenced edge of an open ranch field.

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