Montana USA-1939: Black And White 8mm Footage Of Cows Grazing On A Rural Farm

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

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Black And White 8mm Footage Of Cows Grazing On A Rural Farm — Clip Details

Black and white 8mm home movie footage from Montana USA in 1939, showing a rural farm scene with cows grazing in a field. The grainy, vintage film captures a herd of cattle moving across the landscape, with a wooden fence and bare trees visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics including film grain, soft focus, and natural motion, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century American agriculture. The camera remains mostly static, observing the animals in their natural environment.

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: 121488524

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s rural Montana farm coverage, especially documentary or educational sequences needing cattle, fencing, and home-movie agricultural texture.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1930s ranch or farm conditions through open pasture, simple fencing, bare trees, and black-and-white 8mm home-movie handling.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes cattle from a casual, unstaged distance, with brief human presence suggested at the edge of the home-movie view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include grazing cattle, open field, wooden fencing, bare trees, dark pasture edges, and soft horizon lines.
Film character: The clip has heavy grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, gate shadows, and handheld 8mm framing that read as physical archival film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural insert, agricultural cutaway, transition, or memory beat within Depression-era or prewar American life material.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for small-scale rural animal husbandry without establishing a named farm, owner, event, or exact community.
Research note: People may be visible and should be reviewed for likeness concerns; copyright, location, and property status require separate clearance assessment.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Montana 8mm farm footage, black-and-white cattle grazing, rural American home movie, and historic ranch field scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel farm footage, then Montana 1939 material, then broader 1930s rural agriculture and cattle-grazing scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Montana 1939 home-movie frame with a blurred person or hands near a rail above a rural farm scene. — A soft, grainy view shows partial human presence near farm fencing or a rail.

Black-and-white 8mm view of cattle on a Montana rural field, with bare trees and a low horizon behind them. — Cattle gather along the pasture edge beneath a soft, bare-tree horizon.

Montana 1939 rural farm frame showing a small herd clustered near fencing in soft black-and-white 8mm footage. — A small group of cattle clusters near fencing in the pasture.

Black-and-white 8mm frame of an open Montana field with a low fence line and dark rural background. — The camera holds on an open field crossed by a low fence line.

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