South Dakota USA-1953: Cowboy Herding Cattle Across the Prairie

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

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Cowboy Herding Cattle Across the Prairie — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1953 in South Dakota, showing a cowboy on horseback herding a large herd of brown and white cattle across a vast, dry grassland. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight blurriness, and natural color fading typical of mid-century amateur recordings. The cowboy, wearing a dark jacket and hat, guides the cattle through the open prairie under an overcast sky, capturing authentic rural life and agricultural work of the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122623569

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: 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: 1950s South Dakota ranching footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing a brief cattle-herding scene on open prairie.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century ranch work through a mounted cowboy, Hereford-type cattle, open grassland, muted color, and amateur 8mm framing.
Home-movie behavior: The value comes from an unstaged home-movie view of everyday livestock movement, filmed from a distance as the herd passes through dry grass.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a mounted cowboy, brown and white cattle, tall prairie grass, rolling open land, overcast sky, and soft 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, mild color fading, gate shadow, and handheld exposure shifts that support its archival home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a rural labor insert, prairie transition, livestock cutaway, or brief memory beat within a 1950s agricultural sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents ranching activity in open South Dakota grassland without showing identifiable buildings, machinery, brands, or public landmarks.
Research note: A person is visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed even though no logos, music, private property, or minors are apparent in the frames.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s South Dakota cattle drive, 8mm cowboy herding cattle, vintage ranch work, prairie livestock, and home movie ranch footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel ranch scenes, then South Dakota 1953 material, then broader 1950s cattle, prairie, cowboy, and rural labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 South Dakota 8mm frame showing a distant cowboy on horseback guiding brown and white cattle across open grassland. — A mounted cowboy rides near the herd as cattle move through tall prairie grass.

1953 South Dakota home-movie frame showing cattle spread across dry prairie with rolling grassland in the background. — The herd stretches across the frame against a low, open prairie horizon.

1953 South Dakota 8mm frame with brown and white cattle moving close together through tall grass on open ranch land. — Cattle pass through the foreground grass while the prairie rises softly behind them.

1953 South Dakota home-movie frame showing cattle moving through dry grass under a pale sky on open prairie. — A brown and white cow leads part of the herd through the grassland.

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