Colorado USA-1939: A Horse Grazes In The Wilderness Amongst Forested Mountains

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1933 Colorado

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A Horse Grazes In The Wilderness Amongst Forested Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a horse grazing in a sun-dappled meadow at the edge of a dense forest in Colorado. The animal, seen from behind, lowers its head to eat grass as the camera pans slowly upward, revealing a vast mountain range under a bright blue sky with scattered white clouds. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color saturation, and natural light, evoking a nostalgic sense of rural Americana and untouched wilderness.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124762089

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: 1939 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: 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 1930s Colorado home-movie requests needing rural wilderness, grazing livestock, forested mountains, or quiet nature cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The footage may show a late-1930s leisure or travel view, with color 8mm home-movie texture and a simple handheld look rather than visible clothing, vehicles, or built landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes a horse from a casual distance, then drifts toward the surrounding forest and sky in an unstaged traveler or family-film manner.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a grazing horse, meadow grass, dark evergreen forest, wooded mountain slopes, bright blue sky, white clouds, and rounded film-frame edges.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, saturated blues and greens, soft focus, gate shadows, and uneven handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, pastoral transition, nature cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about Colorado travel or rural landscapes.
Historical context: The scene places a domestic horse within open mountain terrain, suggesting recreational or rural contact with Colorado wilderness without showing settlement or identifiable human activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, collection permissions, and any location-specific use concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Colorado 8mm home movie, horse grazing in mountain meadow, vintage forest landscape, and prewar rural nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Colorado travel scenes, then with other 1939 Colorado mountain footage, then with broader vintage horses, forests, and wilderness themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Colorado 8mm frame with a horse grazing at the edge of a meadow beneath dense forest and mountain slopes. — A horse lowers its head to graze in a meadow below forested mountain terrain.

Colorado mountain landscape on 8mm film, with dense trees, meadow edge, and blue sky visible after the horse moves out of frame. — The camera frames the forested slope and meadow edge beneath a bright sky.

1939 Colorado home-movie frame showing a wooded mountain slope, meadow foreground, and white clouds in a blue sky. — A wide mountain view shows forest, meadow, and scattered cloud cover.

Colorado 8mm frame of a dark forested ridge with treetops silhouetted against blue sky and white clouds. — The final frame lingers on the mountain ridge, trees, and passing white clouds.

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