South Dakota USA-1953: Woman Riding A Dark Brown And White Horse In A Wide Open Field

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationSouth Dakota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 South Dakota

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Woman Riding A Dark Brown And White Horse In A Wide Open... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1953 in South Dakota, showing a woman riding a dark brown and white horse across a wide open field. The rider wears a light-colored long-sleeved shirt and blue jeans, seated on a saddle with a tan blanket. The horse moves steadily through tall golden grass under a pale sky, captured with the characteristic grain, soft focus, and slight motion blur of mid-century amateur film. The scene evokes a sense of rural Americana and personal memory, with natural lighting and a nostalgic, unposed quality.

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 and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122622568

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.

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: 1953 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: South Dakota, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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 1950s rural Americana sequences needing home-movie footage of horseback riding in an open South Dakota field.
Period detail: The light shirt, blue jeans, western saddle and 8mm color home-movie look support a mid-century rural setting without visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The rider appears relaxed and aware of the camera, giving the clip an unstaged family-record feeling rather than a formal equestrian scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman rider, a dark brown and white horse, saddle and blanket, tall grass, pale sky, distant low horizon and soft film edges.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, motion blur and handheld framing give the scanned 8mm footage its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural life insert, horseback cutaway, memory beat or quiet transition within a 1950s family or plains sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents everyday recreational riding in open prairie-like grassland, with no visible town, ranch structure or identifiable event.
Research note: A visible adult face may require likeness review, while copyright, location, property and publicity considerations should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Search phrases include 1950s 8mm woman horseback riding, South Dakota home movie horse field, rural plains riding footage and vintage family film horse.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1953 South Dakota footage, then related rural horseback, open-field or family home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 South Dakota 8mm frame showing a woman on horseback in a wide grassy field under a pale sky. — The rider sits on the horse as it moves through an open field.

Rear view of a woman riding a dark brown and white horse through South Dakota grassland in 1953 home-movie footage. — The horse and rider move away across the field, framed from behind.

Close 8mm view of the woman rider holding the reins as the horse passes through the open South Dakota field. — The camera catches the rider in closer profile as the horse passes by.

Woman on horseback looks toward the camera in a 1953 South Dakota home-movie frame, with grassland and sky behind her. — The rider turns toward the camera while seated on the horse.

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