Montana USA-1939: Rancher On Horseback Herding Cattle Across The Plains

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

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Rancher On Horseback Herding Cattle Across The Plains — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Montana USA in 1939 shows a cowboy or rancher on horseback herding a mixed-color cattle herd across a vast, open plain. The rider, wearing a dark hat and light-colored shirt, guides his dark horse through the herd, with cows and calves moving across the dry, grassy landscape under an overcast sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural motion blur, capturing authentic mid-20th century ranch life. The footage is framed with dark borders, typical of home movie projectors.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 121488796

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This clip supports documentary or educational requests for 1930s Montana ranch work, cattle herding, and rural Western labor shown through authentic 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The rider on horseback, open rangeland, mixed cattle herd, and 8mm color home-movie texture may show late-1930s ranching practice in Montana as supported by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged observational quality, with the camera watching a rancher move among cattle rather than presenting a posed or formal scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a mounted rider in a dark hat, a dark horse, brown and white-faced cattle, calves or smaller animals, dry grass, distant low hills, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm grain, warm faded color, gate-edge borders, mild exposure variation, and motion blur that preserve the physical feel of original home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, cutaway, or memory beat to establish ranch labor, open plains, or everyday rural life in the American West.
Historical context: The scene visually situates cattle work in an open plains environment, showing a single rider guiding livestock across dry grassland without making broader claims about ranch ownership or operation.
Research note: A person is visible on horseback, so likeness review may be relevant, while no logos, music, or clearly identifiable private property are visible in the provided frames; copyright status must be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches might include 1930s Montana ranching 8mm, cowboy herding cattle home movie, vintage cattle drive plains footage, and rancher on horseback archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Montana or 1939 rural footage, and then with broader cattle ranching, horseback herding, or Great Plains home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In supported 1939 Montana home-movie footage, a rider in a dark hat sits on a dark horse while cattle move across dry open grassland. — Mounted rancher among cattle on open range.

A rancher or cowboy on horseback appears beside mixed-color cattle on the Montana plains, with low hills and dark 8mm frame edges visible. — Horseback rider guides cattle across the plain.

Cattle, including white-faced animals, move across the foreground as a mounted rider follows behind in soft, grainy 8mm footage from the documented Montana ranch scene. — Cattle cross foreground with rider behind.

A rider in a dark hat moves on horseback beside cattle in the open Montana landscape, with motion blur and dark film borders from the original 8mm scan. — Rider moves alongside cattle in open grassland.

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