South Dakota USA-1953: Cows Walking In Barn With Farmer Feeding

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

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Cows Walking In Barn With Farmer Feeding — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1953 in South Dakota, showing a brown and white cow walking through a wooden barn stall. The cow moves past hay and a metal feeding trough, its fur appearing dirty and textured under natural light. A farmer in a wide-brimmed hat and work clothes leans over a wooden fence, interacting with the animal. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and a dark vignette, capturing authentic rural farm life. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American agriculture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
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: 122625118

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: 1953 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: South Dakota, 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: Supports 1950s rural American agriculture requests needing brief home-movie footage of cattle, barn feeding, and farm labor in South Dakota.
Period detail: The wooden rails, metal trough, work clothes, and wide-brimmed hat may show mid-century farm handling practices in a rural barn setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged farmyard perspective, watching cattle move through stalls as a farmer leans in to feed or handle an animal.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include cattle, wooden fencing, hay or straw, a metal feeding trough, barn rails, a farmer, a hat, and open sky beyond the enclosure.
Film character: The 8mm image carries heavy grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, color fading, handheld framing, and dark edge vignetting consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, rural-life cutaway, agricultural memory beat, or transition within a sequence about mid-century farming.
Historical context: The clip visually documents everyday cattle care and farm labor without establishing a specific farm, family, breed, or event beyond the supplied South Dakota 1953 metadata.
Research note: A person is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or music are apparent, but copyright, location, and property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1953 South Dakota farm home movie, 8mm cattle feeding, 1950s farmer with cows, and vintage barn livestock footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel farm footage, then other South Dakota or 1953 rural material, then broader cattle feeding, barnyard, and mid-century agriculture scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A cow moves through a South Dakota barn stall in 1953, partly obscured by dark 8mm frame edges. — Cow passing a barn rail beside hay and a feeding trough.

A brown and white cow walks along a feeding area in the 1953 South Dakota farm footage. — Cattle moving through a wooden barn stall near a metal trough.

A cow passes close to the camera inside a South Dakota barn stall, with rails and hay visible. — Close view of cattle moving through the barn enclosure.

A farmer in work clothes and a wide-brimmed hat leans over a wooden fence near cattle in South Dakota farm footage. — Farmer leaning over the fence while tending cattle in the yard or barn area.

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