Denver Colorado-1949: Man Standing On The Backs Of Two Trained Horses As They

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Year1949
Decade1940s
LocationDenver, Colorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Man Standing On The Backs Of Two Trained Horses As They — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1949, this vintage home movie captures a daring stunt in Denver, Colorado. A rider in a white hat and dark shirt stands atop two trained horses as they move in unison across an arena. The horses, one with a distinctive pinto pattern, trot past a white rail fence under a purple-tinged sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American fairground atmosphere. This archival clip showcases a unique equine performance, blending skill and spectacle in a rare, candid 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: 124751760

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 1305 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: trail ridge
Reel-level year note: 1950-1949
Reel-level location note: iowa,kansas city,truman home,colorado,central city,
Date: 1949 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: Denver, Colorado, 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: 1940s 8mm home-movie footage suited for documentary or educational requests about mid-century American arena entertainment and trained-horse stunt acts.
Period detail: The white rail fence, open arena, rider costume, and color 8mm look may show a late-1940s public fairground or rodeo-style performance setting in Denver.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a spectator-shot view of a live equine stunt, with the camera watching from behind arena fencing rather than from a staged production position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a white hat, two trained horses moving together, a pinto-pattern horse, white rail fencing, arena posts, and distant spectators or attendants.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, purple color shift, slight blur, and contact-print density changes that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, memory beat, or cutaway for mid-century recreation, horse training, rodeo spectacle, or fairground entertainment sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents a public animal-performance moment in which a rider balances across two horses, reflecting period leisure and spectacle without identifying a specific venue.
Research note: People are visible but not clearly identifiable; copyright, likeness, venue, and animal-performance context should be reviewed separately for intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1949 Denver 8mm horse stunt, trained horses arena home movie, vintage rodeo trick rider, and mid-century equine performance footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel fairground or arena footage, then Denver 1949 material, then broader vintage horse stunt or rodeo-performance clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1949 Denver home-movie footage, a rider balances on two trained horses moving past an arena rail. — Rider stands across two trained horses as they pass the rail fence.

The rider remains standing across the pair of horses as they move through the Denver arena scene. — The two-horse balancing stunt continues behind the rail.

A rider in dark clothing stands over two trained horses trotting together in the 1949 Denver arena footage. — Horses move together while the rider maintains the standing stunt.

The closing frame shows the Denver horse stunt from a spectator angle, with the rider upright across both horses. — Rider and horses pass through the arena in the final moment of the stunt.

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