Denver Colorado USA-1941: Cowboys Competing In A Rodeo With Bucking Horses

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

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Cowboys Competing In A Rodeo With Bucking Horses — Clip Details

DENVER COLORADO USA-1941: Cowboys on horseback compete in a lively rodeo event, with riders in traditional hats and western attire attempting to stay mounted on bucking horses. The black-and-white 8mm footage captures the action from a spectator's viewpoint, showing a wooden arena, a crowd in bleachers, and the raw energy of mid-20th century American rodeo culture. The grainy, authentic home movie style evokes nostalgia and historical charm.

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: 124601248

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s American West, rodeo, sports exhibition, and Denver community-event sequences needing authentic spectator-shot home-movie footage.
Period detail: The cowboy hats, open dirt arena, wooden chutes, bleachers, and black-and-white 8mm look support a mid-20th-century rodeo setting in Denver, Colorado.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a spectator's viewpoint, following riders and bucking horses from the stands rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include mounted cowboys, bucking horses, arena fencing, wooden chutes, bleacher spectators, a handler on foot, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm grain, high-contrast black-and-white exposure, slight blur, and handheld framing that preserve its home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, action cutaway, or memory beat for rodeo culture, western recreation, Denver events, or wartime-era leisure.
Historical context: The scenes show public rodeo entertainment with spectators watching mounted riders attempt to control bucking horses in an outdoor arena.
Research note: People and faces are visible at a distance, so likeness considerations may remain separate from copyright status; no visible logos or private interiors appear.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1941 Denver rodeo 8mm footage, 1940s cowboy home movie, bucking horse arena, and vintage American rodeo spectators.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1941 Denver material, then 1940s rodeo, cowboy, horse, and public-spectacle scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1941 Denver rodeo footage, several mounted cowboys appear near the arena rail while spectators watch from bleachers. — Mounted cowboys gather in the arena as the crowd watches from the stands.

A cowboy rides a bucking horse in the Denver rodeo arena, with wooden chutes and bleachers visible in the background. — A rider leans with the motion of a bucking horse near the arena chutes.

The rider and horse move across the Denver rodeo arena near the rail, seen through soft black-and-white 8mm film grain. — A horse bucks near the arena rail while spectators sit in the bleachers.

A cowboy rides a bucking horse in the Denver arena as a man on foot stands nearby and spectators watch from the bleachers. — A rider holds on as the horse bucks, with a rodeo worker standing at a distance.

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