Montana USA-1939: Persons Riding Horses Across Open Landscape

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

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Persons Riding Horses Across Open Landscape — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Montana USA in 1939 shows three individuals riding horses across a vast, open landscape. The riders, dressed in period attire including a bright orange jacket and a dark coat, traverse a dusty, barren terrain under an overcast sky. The grainy, slightly blurred quality of the Super 8 film captures the authentic feel of a mid-20th century family outing. The horses move steadily across the frame, leaving tracks in the soft ground, while the camera remains mostly static, offering a nostalgic glimpse into rural life and outdoor recreation of the era. This archival footage is ideal for historical documentaries, period pieces, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121488869

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 requests needing late-1930s Montana home-movie footage of horseback riding across an open rural landscape for documentary, educational, or period-context edits.
Period detail: The riders' coats, hats, and casual horseback travel may show late-1930s outdoor recreation or ranch-country leisure, supported by the 1939 Montana metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged family-film viewpoint as riders move away from the camera across open ground rather than posing for a formal scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include four riders on horseback, a bright orange jacket, darker coats, pale dusty ground, distant low terrain, an overcast sky, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing that give it clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, travel insert, rural memory beat, or transition between wider themes of recreation, ranch life, and open western landscapes.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for horseback mobility and outdoor leisure in a sparsely built Montana setting without showing named landmarks or specific events.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos, music, private property, or identifiable brands are evident from the frames.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Montana 8mm home movie horseback riders, vintage western landscape riding, rural horse travel, and open-country family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Montana material, then broader home-movie clips of horseback riding and rural western travel.

Still Frames From This Clip

Three riders on horseback, including one in an orange jacket, cross open Montana ground in 1939 home-movie footage. — Riders on horseback move away from the camera across open ground.

Four distant riders on horseback continue across a bare Montana landscape, with coats and hats visible in soft 8mm color. — Four riders continue over a low rise in the open landscape.

Soft, blurred 8mm frame of horseback riders crossing open Montana ground, with a pale foreground edge cutting into the view. — The riders blur slightly as they move across the dusty terrain.

Four horseback riders, including one in an orange jacket and one in a light coat, move across open Montana terrain in 1939 footage. — Four riders spread out across the open gray landscape.

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