Scapegoat Wilderness Montana USA .Mp-1973: Rancher Feeding Horses In Mountain Pasture

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationScapegoat Wilderness, Montana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 Scapegoat Wilderness Montana

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Scapegoat Wilderness Montana USA — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage home movie captures a rancher tending to horses in the rugged landscape of Scapegoat Wilderness, Montana. A man in a dark jacket walks through a sun-drenched field carrying a bucket, approaching a dark horse while a light-colored horse stands nearby. The scene unfolds under a dramatic purple-tinged sky with misty mountains and dense pine forests in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and film scratches, evoking a nostalgic, authentic slice of rural American life from the 1970s.

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: 123073238

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 1764 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: III-09,scapegoat
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: lincoln nebraska,montana
Date: 1973 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Scapegoat Wilderness, Montana, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: 1970s 8mm ranch and mountain-pasture footage for documentary, education, museum, or editorial sequences about rural Montana, horse care, and wilderness-adjacent life.
Period detail: The clip may show 1970s home-movie-era ranch activity, with a bucket-carrying adult, grazing horses, simple pasture fencing, and no visible modern vehicles or signage.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes an adult tending horses from a distance, preserving an unstaged home-movie view of routine animal care in open mountain country.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark horse, a light-colored horse, an adult carrying a bucket, pasture grass, fence lines, wooded foothills, mountains, and a clouded sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, handheld framing, purple color shift, grain, gate edges, and vertical scratches that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural-life insert, horse-care cutaway, wilderness transition, or quiet memory beat between broader Montana landscape scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually places horse care within a mountain pasture setting, suggesting everyday ranch or backcountry-adjacent labor without proving ownership or a named ranch.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no brands are visible, and copyright, location, and property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1973 Montana 8mm rancher feeding horses, Scapegoat Wilderness home movie pasture, and vintage mountain horse care footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Scapegoat Wilderness or Montana footage, then broader 1970s ranch, horses, and mountain-pasture material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Montana 8mm frame of an adult with a bucket near a dark horse, with a light-colored horse and wooded mountains beyond. — A bucket-carrying adult approaches a dark horse while another horse stands nearby in the pasture.

1973 Montana home-movie frame showing an adult with horses in a fenced pasture below wooded foothills and mountains. — The adult remains near the horses in the open field, with pasture fencing and mountains behind them.

Wide 1973 Montana 8mm view of an adult and multiple horses crossing a pasture beneath hazy mountain slopes. — A wider view shows the adult and horses spread across the pasture below the mountain landscape.

Distant 1973 Montana mountain-pasture frame with horses near the lower edge and a dramatic clouded sky above dark slopes. — The clip closes on a distant mountain view with horses low in the pasture under heavy clouds.

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