South Dakota USA-1953: Cowboy Releasing Cattle From Pen Into Field

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

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Cowboy Releasing Cattle From Pen Into Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from South Dakota, 1953, showing a cowboy in a wide-brimmed hat and work clothes opening a wooden fence gate to release cattle into a dry grassy field. The grainy, color-bleached film captures the rustic ranch life with a herd of brown and white cattle moving through the enclosure. The footage has a nostalgic, authentic feel with natural lighting and subtle camera movement, offering a rare glimpse into mid-century American ranching.

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: 122625133

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: Useful for 1950s rural American ranching requests needing authentic home-movie cattle handling, cowboy labor, or South Dakota agricultural cutaways.
Period detail: The wooden corral, wide-brimmed hat, dry grassland, haystack, and 8mm color home-movie look support a mid-century ranch setting in South Dakota.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes practical ranch work at close range, with a cowboy opening a gate and cattle moving out into open pasture without staged presentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wooden fence gate, cowboy in work clothes, cattle faces and bodies, dry pasture, distant fencing, haystack, and open pale sky.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, dark frame edges, and handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief insert, rural transition, livestock cutaway, or memory beat within sequences about ranch work and mid-century farm life.
Historical context: The footage visually places cattle handling within a small-scale ranch environment, emphasizing everyday labor and open grazing space rather than public spectacle.
Research note: A person is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright, location, and any property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s South Dakota ranch footage, 8mm cowboy opening cattle gate, vintage cattle pen home movie, and mid-century grazing field.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then South Dakota 1953 ranch scenes, then broader cattle, cowboy, fencing, and rural agriculture material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1953 South Dakota ranch footage, a cowboy in a wide-brimmed hat works a wooden gate as cattle press near the pen opening. — Cowboy releases cattle through a wooden ranch gate.

A close 8mm frame shows a cow's face and horns partly obscured by wooden fence boards in the South Dakota ranch pen. — Cow close to the fence as the gate area opens.

Cattle appear in a dry South Dakota pasture, with a small distant figure and fence posts visible through soft, grainy 8mm color. — Cattle move away from the pen into open pasture.

The herd stands in a dry ranch field in South Dakota, with a haystack, fence line, and pale sky visible in the background. — Herd gathered near a haystack and fence line.

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