Montana USA-1939: A Man And Boy Harvesting Hay With A Horse-Drawn Wagon

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

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A Man And Boy Harvesting Hay With A Horse-Drawn Wagon — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from Montana USA in 1939 captures a farmer and his son working in a rural field. Two dark horses pull a wooden hay wagon loaded with golden bales across dry, open farmland under a pale sky. The man, wearing a cowboy hat and a light-colored shirt, stands on the wagon, handling the hay, while a younger person in a dark hat assists. The footage shows natural, unsteady camera movement and the characteristic grain, color fading, and edge damage of mid-20th century home movie film. This authentic archival clip evokes a nostalgic, pastoral Americana scene of early 20th-century farm life.

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: 121488717

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 Americana requests needing brief editorial footage of horse-drawn hay work on a Montana farm.
Period detail: The horse team, wooden wagon, hand-loaded hay, hats, and open dry field may show prewar farm labor practices consistent with the 1939 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged family-film feel, with the camera observing farm work from a nearby field position as the wagon approaches and then cuts closer.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two draft horses, a wooden hay wagon, loose hay or bales, two workers, open farmland, distant cattle, pale sky, and worn film borders.
Film character: The 8mm footage shows soft focus, warm color fading, visible grain, gate weave, handheld framing, and dark frame edges that mark it as original home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, rural transition, agricultural cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence on family farms or prewar labor.
Historical context: The scene visually places farm work in an open western field where animal power and hand labor remain central to moving hay.
Research note: People are visible, including faces at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright status is separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1930s Montana home movie farm footage, 8mm horse-drawn hay wagon, rural American agriculture, and vintage ranch labor.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Montana 1939 footage, then broader 1930s rural agriculture or horse-drawn wagon scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Montana home-movie footage, two workers ride a horse-drawn hay wagon through dry open farmland. — Two workers ride a horse-drawn hay wagon across a rural field.

The wagon and horse team move closer as two farm workers stand above the hay in the Montana field. — The horse-drawn wagon approaches with two workers standing on the hay.

A closer 8mm frame shows the two-horse team and wagon, with workers partly visible above the hay load. — Close view of the horse team and loaded wagon during hay work.

A man in a brimmed hat stands near two horses in the Montana field after the hay wagon sequence. — A man stands beside the horse team in the open rural field.

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