Nevada USA-1959: Cowboy On Horseback Herding Cattle Across Road

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Cowboy On Horseback Herding Cattle Across Road — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a cowboy on horseback guiding a herd of cattle across a dusty road in Nevada. The rider, wearing a dark jacket and cowboy hat, navigates the animals under a bright sky with scattered clouds, with distant mountains framing the arid landscape. The footage, viewed through a car window, shows the herd crossing the road as vehicles pause, offering a candid glimpse of rural life and livestock management in the American West. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and authentic Super 8 motion, preserving a nostalgic moment from mid-century America.

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: 123622125

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: 1959 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: Nevada, 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s American West requests needing candid 8mm footage of cattle herding, rural roads, horseback work, or traffic paused for livestock in Nevada.
Period detail: The cowboy hat, horseback handling, mid-century roadside viewpoint, distant arid mountains, and 1959 metadata place the scene in a late-1950s rural Nevada setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value because it appears filmed from inside or beside a stopped car as the herd passes across the road.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a cowboy on horseback, a cattle herd, a dusty roadside, stopped vehicles, open desert terrain, distant mountains, and a bright clouded sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, handheld framing, visible grain, muted color, and exposure shifts that preserve the physical texture of amateur film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, Western travel cutaway, rural-life transition, or memory beat showing livestock work interrupting a road journey.
Historical context: The footage documents a visible encounter between automobile travel and livestock movement in an open Western landscape without asserting a specific ranch or event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so copyright, rider likeness, and any location identification should be reviewed separately before commercial use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Nevada 8mm cattle drive, cowboy herding cattle across road, vintage American West home movie, and rural livestock traffic footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Nevada road or desert footage, then broader American West ranching and livestock scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Nevada 8mm frame showing a cowboy on horseback near cattle crossing a road, viewed from a vehicle-side perspective. — A rider on horseback moves alongside cattle crossing a dusty road in open Nevada landscape.

Cowboy on horseback appears to gesture as cattle cross a Nevada road, with a car edge visible in the foreground. — The rider raises a hand while guiding cattle past stopped roadside traffic.

A cowboy on horseback approaches the camera while cattle move behind him in the arid Nevada landscape. — The rider turns toward the camera with the herd continuing along the road behind him.

Close 1959 Nevada frame of a cowboy on horseback passing near the camera during a roadside cattle crossing. — A closer pass shows the rider and saddle as he moves along the road beside the herd.

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