Lincoln Nebraska-1975: Children Play With Calf On Farm

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Year1947
Decade1940s
LocationLincoln, Nebraska, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Children Play With Calf On Farm — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1975, this vintage home movie captures a playful moment on a Nebraska farm, where children interact with a small calf. A young boy in a light-colored shirt and pants attempts to mount the calf while another child in a dark suit watches nearby. The black-and-white footage shows the calf resisting, bucking and moving across a dirt yard under bright sunlight, casting sharp shadows. The grainy texture and film scratches add to the authentic, nostalgic feel of this candid family moment.

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: 123210080

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1947 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: Lincoln, Nebraska, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s rural home-movie requests needing brief farm-animal interaction, family yard activity, or Nebraska agricultural cutaway material.
Period detail: The clothing, open dirt yard, and black-and-white 8mm look may show a mid-century farm setting, with the supplied metadata placing the footage near Lincoln, Nebraska in 1947.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value as people try to steady or guide a small calf while the animal moves around in bright outdoor light.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small calf, people standing close by, light shirts and trousers, a dirt yard, hard sunlight, long shadows, and edge-bounded film frames.
Film character: The footage carries a physical 8mm character with soft focus, visible grain, scratches, flicker, high contrast, and slight contact-sheet frame drift.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, rural memory beat, animal-handling cutaway, or transition within a home-front, farm life, or family archive sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually documents casual rural leisure or animal handling in a farmyard setting without enough detail to identify a specific property or event.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright status; no logos are apparent, and property identification is limited in these frames.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1940s 8mm Nebraska farm calf, vintage home movie farm animal, rural family yard footage, and black-and-white calf handling.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1947 Lincoln or Nebraska farm footage, then broader mid-century rural family and livestock scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In archival home-movie footage from the Lincoln, Nebraska area, people stand close to a small calf in a sunlit farmyard. — People crowd near a calf as it stands or moves in a dirt yard.

A person in light clothing leans over a small calf as it moves through a bright outdoor farmyard. — A person bends over the calf while it moves across the yard.

A light-clothed person steadies or guides a small calf while another figure stands at the edge of the farmyard scene. — The calf moves forward as a person leans over its back.

A small calf walks near people in a sunlit yard, partly obscured by a person passing close to the camera. — A foreground figure partially blocks the view as the calf passes nearby.

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