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San Francisco California USA-1957: Sheep Grazing in Pasture

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

  • Year1957
  • Decade1950s
  • LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1957 San Francisco

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Sheep Grazing in Pasture — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1957 showing a pastoral scene of sheep scattered across a green pasture under an overcast sky. The view is framed by the dark border of a film projector or viewer, with visible scratches and dust on the celluloid surface. The sheep graze calmly in the field, with distant trees and farm buildings on the horizon. The footage has a soft focus and muted colors characteristic of mid-century amateur film, capturing a quiet moment of rural 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
122654726

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
1957 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
San Francisco, California, 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.

Open Clip Documentation RecordRequest source information

Topics & Keywords

  • riding a car on a sheep and sheep farm
  • riding
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  • 1957
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  • 8mm home movie
  • sheep grazing
  • rural America
  • pastoral scene
  • overcast sky
  • film grain
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  • farm animals
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  • archival footage
  • nostalgic
  • classic film
  • analog film
  • old film
  • historical footage
  • editorial use
  • sheep farm
  • scattered sheep
  • green field
  • vintage camera
  • analog footage
  • 1950s Americana

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Supports requests for 1950s 8mm rural or pastoral cutaways, especially documentary scenes needing quiet sheep-grazing footage from a home-movie source.
Period detail
The soft color, visible film gate edges, and amateur 8mm texture support the supplied 1957 dating, while the landscape itself offers few precise period clues.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has an unstaged observer's view of animals in a field, likely filmed as a calm travel or family-record moment rather than a directed scene.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include sheep scattered across green pasture, low overcast clouds, distant trees, small farm structures, dark film-frame borders, scratches, and dust.
Film character
The footage carries mid-century 8mm character through soft focus, muted color, gate shadows, visible grain, dust, scratches, and slight frame variation.
Edit role
Editors could use it as a pastoral insert, rural transition, memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway between family-travel or agricultural sequences.
Historical context
The scene shows sheep grazing in open pasture near distant buildings, offering rural visual context without enough detail to identify a specific farm or site.
Research note
No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and any property permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match
Useful search matches include 1957 8mm sheep pasture, vintage home movie grazing animals, rural California farm field, and overcast pastoral cutaway.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with San Francisco or California 1957 material, then with mid-century rural pasture or farm-animal footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 8mm home-movie frame of sheep scattered in a green pasture near San Francisco, with overcast sky and visible film gate edges.
Sheep graze in a green field beneath low clouds, framed by dark 8mm gate borders.
1957 8mm frame showing sheep spread across a green field near San Francisco, with distant trees, small structures, and film scratches visible.
A wide pasture view shows sheep grazing with trees and small buildings on the horizon.
1957 8mm home-movie frame of a broad sheep pasture near San Francisco, with muted color, soft focus, distant trees, and surface dust.
Sheep are spread across the field as the camera looks toward a cloudy horizon.
1957 8mm frame of sheep in a green pasture near San Francisco, showing distant farm structures, overcast sky, and pronounced celluloid marks.
A final pasture view holds on grazing sheep, distant structures, and visible scratches in the film.

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