Montana USA-1939: Cowboy on Horse Across Prairie with Cattle

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

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Cowboy on Horse Across Prairie with Cattle — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Montana USA in 1939 showing a man in a brown jacket and hat riding a horse across a vast, open prairie. The horse has a distinctive white blaze on its face. In the background, a herd of cattle grazes in the dry, golden landscape under an overcast sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, capturing a nostalgic moment of rural life and ranching. The camera follows the rider as he moves across the field, offering a glimpse into mid-20th century Americana.

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: 121488837

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 Montana ranching requests needing authentic home-movie footage of horseback riding, open prairie, and cattle in an editorial or documentary sequence.
Period detail: The rider's brimmed hat, plain work jacket, open range setting, and 8mm color home-movie format support the supplied 1939 Montana context without identifying a specific ranch.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the informal value of a family or visitor filming a mounted rider moving across pasture rather than a staged commercial ranch scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man on horseback, cattle grazing behind him, open brown prairie, distant low horizon, overcast sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows soft focus, handheld framing, muted color, visible grain, and motion blur that read as physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural life insert, ranching cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition between wider Montana landscape and livestock material.
Historical context: The scene visually documents everyday horseback movement through cattle pasture in the late-1930s American West, based on supplied date and location metadata.
Research note: A person and likely face are visible, so likeness review may be needed even when no logos, children, music, or private interiors are apparent.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Montana 8mm ranch footage, man riding horse on prairie, cattle herd home movie, and Depression-era rural West footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel ranch scenes, then other 1939 Montana footage, then broader horseback, cattle, prairie, and rural American West material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In supplied 1939 Montana footage, a man in a brown jacket rides a dark horse with a white blaze across open cattle pasture. — Mounted rider approaches the camera as cattle graze across the prairie behind him.

A mounted rider appears farther from the camera on Montana prairie, with the 8mm frame showing blur and dark borders. — The rider moves away across the open field in a blurred home-movie frame.

The rider and horse appear small against a wide Montana pasture landscape in the supplied 1939 home-movie clip. — A distant horseback rider crosses the wide prairie landscape.

A small mounted figure continues across the open Montana prairie, with muted color and visible 8mm frame edges. — The horseback rider recedes across the field near the distant horizon.

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