South Dakota USA-1953: Two Scenes Of Cows Walking In A Field

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

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Two Scenes Of Cows Walking In A Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1953 showing a herd of brown and white cows walking across a dry, open field in South Dakota. The herd moves slowly across the arid landscape under a pale sky with distant purple-hued mountains. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural film scratches, capturing authentic mid-century rural Americana. The sequence includes two distinct scenes of the cattle in motion, offering authentic archival footage of farm life.

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: 122625181

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s rural Americana edits needing authentic 8mm cattle, open range, or farm-life cutaways from South Dakota.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century ranch or farm grazing, with cattle moving across dry open ground beneath a pale sky and distant hills.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged roadside or field-edge perspective, observing cattle at a distance without visible people directing the scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include brown and white cattle, dry grass, open pasture, low brush, distant hills, pale clouded sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, gate edges, scratches, and slight handheld steadiness typical of home-movie footage.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a rural establishing insert, livestock cutaway, transition between travel scenes, or quiet memory beat in a farm history sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually documents cattle moving through an open South Dakota landscape, suggesting everyday ranch or farm activity without identifiable people or buildings.
Research note: No people, logos, or private structures are visible, but copyright status and any land or livestock-related permissions should be verified separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1953 South Dakota 8mm cattle footage, vintage cows in field, mid-century rural home movie, and open range livestock scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel rural footage, then other 1953 South Dakota material, then broader vintage livestock, farming, and open-landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Brown and white cattle move across a dry South Dakota field in 1953 8mm home-movie footage, with distant hills on the horizon. — A small herd crosses open dry grassland with distant hills beyond.

Cattle walk through an open South Dakota pasture in archival 1953 8mm footage, framed by dry grass and a hazy horizon. — The herd continues moving across the field beneath a pale sky.

The herd appears lower in the frame as it crosses dry South Dakota grassland, with a bluish distant ridge behind it. — Cattle move together across sparse grass with a distant ridge behind them.

A closer 1953 South Dakota 8mm view shows brown and white cows walking through tall dry grass beneath layered clouds. — A closer view shows cows passing through tall dry grass under clouds.

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