Denver Colorado USA-1941: Cowboy Riding Bucking Bronco at Denver Rodeo

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Year1941
Decade1940s
LocationDenver, Colorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Cowboy Riding Bucking Bronco at Denver Rodeo — Clip Details

DENVER COLORADO USA-1941: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a rodeo performance featuring an experienced cowboy riding a powerful pinto bucking bronco. The black-and-white footage, shot from the stands, shows the rider maintaining control as the horse bucks wildly in the arena. Spectators fill the bleachers in the background, watching the intense action. The grainy, high-contrast film quality and motion blur convey the raw energy of the moment, offering authentic archival footage of mid-20th century American rodeo culture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124600923

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: 1941 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: Denver, Colorado, 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 documentary or educational requests for early 1940s American rodeo footage, especially brief inserts showing a bronc rider in a crowded arena.
Period detail: The bleachers, open rodeo arena, monochrome 8mm look, and rider's cowboy attire support the supplied 1941 Denver context without revealing specific landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from the stands, the clip has the feel of a spectator following a fast rodeo ride rather than a staged production setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pinto bucking horse, mounted cowboy, arena rail, blurred spectators in bleachers, open dirt field, and film gate edges.
Film character: The footage shows heavy grain, high contrast, soft focus, motion blur, and handheld framing that read as authentic scanned 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quick action insert, transition beat, or period cutaway for rodeo culture, Western recreation, or public entertainment scenes.
Historical context: The scene documents rodeo as a public spectator event, with a rider performing in an arena before a seated crowd in mid-20th-century Denver footage.
Research note: People and a rider are visible but not identifiable with certainty, so likeness and event permissions should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1941 Denver rodeo home movie, 8mm bronco riding footage, vintage pinto bucking horse, and 1940s cowboy arena scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1941 Denver material, then broader rodeo, cowboy, horse, and spectator-sport footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In supplied 1941 Denver rodeo footage, a cowboy rides a bucking pinto horse as bleachers blur in the background. — A bronc rider stays mounted as the pinto horse bucks across the arena.

A cowboy remains seated on a bucking pinto horse in the rodeo arena, with the crowd and rail visible behind. — The horse kicks forward while the rider holds position in front of the stands.

The rider continues on the bucking pinto as a second arena figure appears in the foreground of the spectator-shot frame. — A foreground arena figure watches as the mounted rider passes on the bucking horse.

Near the end of the clip, the cowboy rides the pinto across the arena as the blurred bleachers remain in the background. — The rider and pinto move across the arena in a blurred final rodeo frame.

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