Montana USA-1939: A Cowboy Riding A Brown Horse Herding Cattle

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

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A Cowboy Riding A Brown Horse Herding Cattle — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from Montana USA in 1939 captures a cowboy in a dark hat and tan jacket riding a brown horse with a white blaze across a vast, open prairie. The horseback rider moves steadily through the rugged landscape, herding a scattered group of brown and white cattle across the dry, grassy terrain under an overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and natural camera movement, offering authentic archival footage of rural American life and ranching activity.

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: 121488811

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

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 America requests needing authentic Montana ranching, horseback work, or cattle-herding home-movie footage for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The dark hats, plain ranch clothing, open grazing land, and 8mm color home-movie texture support a late-1930s rural Montana setting without identifying a specific ranch.
Home-movie behavior: The rider appears to move naturally with cattle nearby while the handheld camera observes from close range, giving the moment an unstaged family-film perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brown horse with a white blaze, a rider in a tan jacket and dark hat, scattered cattle, dry prairie grass, low hills, and soft overcast sky.
Film character: The clip has warm 8mm color, visible grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserve its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, rural transition, ranching cutaway, or memory beat within sequences about Western work and family-shot landscapes.
Historical context: The footage visually documents everyday cattle handling on open Montana range, showing ranch labor and animal movement rather than a staged public event.
Research note: A rider's face is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright, likeness, and location permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Montana ranching footage, 8mm cowboy on horseback, cattle herding home movie, and rural American prairie archive film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Montana material, then broader Western ranching, horseback, cattle, or prairie home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Montana home-movie footage, a rider in a dark hat approaches on a brown horse as cattle graze across open prairie. — A mounted rider faces the camera with cattle scattered across the range.

In Montana ranch footage from 1939, a rider in a tan jacket moves a brown horse near cattle on dry prairie ground. — The rider passes through the herd on horseback across the open range.

A handheld 1939 Montana frame shows a rider on horseback moving near cattle, softened by motion blur and 8mm film texture. — Motion blur emphasizes the handheld home-movie view of the rider and herd.

The rider faces the camera on a brown horse with a white blaze, with cattle and rolling Montana prairie visible behind. — The horse and rider pause or approach with the herd spread across the background.

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