Montana USA-1939: Farmer Bucking Hay From Horse-Drawn Trailer

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

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Farmer Bucking Hay From Horse-Drawn Trailer — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Montana USA in 1939 shows farmers loading hay onto a horse-drawn trailer in a rural field. A man in a cowboy hat and red shirt uses a pitchfork to toss hay onto the wagon, while another worker stands nearby. The scene captures the labor of early 20th-century agriculture under a pale sky, with visible film grain and color fading characteristic of archival Super 8 footage. The horses pull the trailer across the open landscape, emphasizing the era's reliance on animal power for farming.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121488703

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s rural agriculture requests needing real home-movie footage of hay loading, horse-drawn farm work, and Montana field labor.
Period detail: The horse team, open wagon or trailer, pitchfork handling, brimmed hats, and faded 8mm color support the 1939 rural Montana setting in the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes working farmers from a distance, preserving an unstaged view of hay being pitched and moved rather than a posed farm portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include men with pitchforks, loose hay, a horse-drawn wagon or trailer, open fields, pale sky, work clothes, and distant low hills.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet borders give the clip a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, rural labor cutaway, transition between farm sequences, or memory beat about pre-mechanized hay work.
Historical context: The clip visually documents animal-powered hay handling in an open rural field, with adults working around a loaded wagon in a small farm setting.
Research note: Adults are visible at a distance, so copyright, likeness, and any property-context questions should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Montana farming footage, 8mm hay bucking, horse-drawn wagon agriculture, rural field labor, and vintage home movies.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Montana footage, then broader 1930s farming, haying, and horse-team work.

Still Frames From This Clip

In rural Montana footage from 1939, a farmer in a hat uses a pitchfork to move hay onto a wagon as another worker stands nearby. — Farmer pitches hay onto a wagon in an open field.

A farmer in 1939 Montana footage works with a pitchfork over a hay-loaded wagon, with another figure visible at the right edge. — Pitchfork work continues around a hay-loaded wagon.

A farmer in a hat works hay with a pitchfork beside the wagon, with another adult figure silhouetted against the field. — A worker bends into the hay with a pitchfork.

A horse-drawn hay wagon moves through a Montana field, with workers standing on the load and handling hay from above. — Horse team moves the loaded hay wagon across the field.

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