Agate Springs Montana USA-1975: Cowboys Tending Horses in Wooded Clearing

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Year1975
Decade1970s
LocationAgate Springs, Montana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1975 Agate Springs Montana

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Cowboys Tending Horses in Wooded Clearing — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1975, this vintage home movie captures a rustic scene in Agate Springs, Montana. The clip opens on a sun-drenched meadow filled with tall greenery and wildflowers, then shifts to a close-up of tangled branches in deep purple tones. The final frames reveal two cowboys in hats tending to horses in a wooded clearing, their silhouettes framed by trees. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and natural lighting, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of rural American life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123075625

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 1768 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: july
Reel-level year note: 1975
Reel-level location note: agate springs,montana
Date: 1975 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: Agate Springs, 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 Montana home-movie footage for productions needing rural western landscape, horses, and cowboy handling cutaways.
Period detail: The hats, horses, open meadow, and saturated 8mm color may show mid-1970s rural travel or ranch-adjacent activity in Agate Springs, Montana.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor perspective, moving from plants and branches to two men tending horses in a wooded clearing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall wildflowers, dense green meadow growth, tangled pale branches, trees, horses, two hat-wearing men, and a sunlit clearing.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries strong grain, handheld framing, uneven exposure, soft focus, and purple-green color shifts typical of aged home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural travel insert, nature-to-horse transition, western memory beat, or brief contextual cutaway.
Historical context: The footage visually situates horses and cowboy dress within a wooded Montana outdoor setting without documenting a named ranch, event, or ceremony.
Research note: People are visible but not identifiable in close detail; copyright, likeness, and any location or property permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1975 Montana 8mm horses, Agate Springs cowboys home movie, rural western travel footage, and Super 8 meadow wildflowers.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then 1975 Agate Springs or Montana footage, then broader 1970s rural horse and cowboy material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1975 Agate Springs 8mm frame showing tall green vegetation and scattered wildflowers in a sunlit meadow. — Sunlit meadow growth and wildflowers fill the opening frame.

8mm frame from Agate Springs showing tangled branches and brush with strong purple color shift and soft focus. — Branches and brush appear in a purple-shifted close view.

1975 Montana home-movie frame showing tangled branches, brush, and soft foreground leaves in purple-shifted color. — A close brush detail holds on tangled branches and foreground leaves.

1975 Agate Springs frame showing two hat-wearing men tending horses in a sunlit wooded clearing. — Two men in hats tend horses at the edge of a wooded clearing.

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