Montana USA-1939: A Man Riding A Horse Across A Muddy Field Out In The Country

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

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A Man Riding A Horse Across A Muddy Field Out In The Country — Clip Details

A man rides a horse across a muddy field in a vintage 8mm home movie from Montana, USA, in 1939. The grainy black-and-white footage shows the rider in a dark suit and hat, moving through a rural landscape with scattered puddles and distant trees. The camera remains mostly static, capturing the quiet, nostalgic atmosphere of a bygone era. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with visible grain, soft focus, and darkened edges, evoking a sense of historical authenticity and personal memory.

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: 121488605

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 or Depression-era countryside sequences needing brief home-movie footage of horseback travel across open, muddy land.
Period detail: The rider's dark hat and suit, open field, distant tree line, and black-and-white 8mm texture support a late-1930s rural home-movie setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged family-film view of a man riding slowly across a wet field while the camera watches from a fixed distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a mounted rider, muddy ground, shallow puddles, open field, distant trees, low horizon, soft sky, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The footage has heavy grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, gate shadows, and contact-print darkness that read as original 8mm archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural insert, memory beat, transition, or cutaway for early 20th-century ranch, travel, or countryside context.
Historical context: The scene shows horseback movement in an open rural landscape, offering social context for everyday country life without identifying a specific ranch or event.
Research note: A person is visible at distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or clear private property are visible, and copyright clearance is separate.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1939 Montana home movie, rural horseback rider, muddy field horse footage, black-and-white 8mm countryside, and vintage ranch life.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Montana rural footage, then broader 1930s horseback, ranch, and country-life material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Montana home-movie footage, a distant man on horseback moves across a wet rural field beneath a pale sky. — A mounted rider appears in the distance across a muddy field.

The rider continues across the rural Montana field, partly silhouetted against the soft horizon and grainy sky. — The horse and rider move across open ground with wet patches visible below.

A man on horseback appears nearer in the frame, crossing the muddy Montana field in soft black-and-white 8mm footage. — The rider comes closer across the wet rural field.

The mounted figure pauses or slows near the muddy foreground.

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