Utah USA-1939: A Herd Of Sheep Crosses The Road As Man On Horseback Follows Them

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationUtah, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Utah

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A Herd Of Sheep Crosses The Road As Man On Horseback... — Clip Details

UTAH USA-1939: A man on horseback herds a large flock of sheep along a dusty rural road in the Utah mountains. The scene unfolds under a clear blue sky, with the herd moving across the frame as a cowboy on horseback guides them. The footage, shot on 8mm film, captures the rugged landscape of the American West, with pine-covered hillsides and a vintage, nostalgic quality. A young woman in a dark dress stands near a wooden sign for Powell National Forest, adding a personal, documentary feel to the archival footage. The film shows natural movement and authentic rural life from the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124763429

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.

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: Yes
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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Utah, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s American West rural-life requests needing sheep herding, horseback ranch work, or mountain road livestock movement in archival home-movie form.
Period detail: The 8mm color home-movie look, rural road, mounted herder, and open Utah mountain landscape support a late-1930s ranching travel record.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from a roadside position as the flock moves naturally past, preserving an unstaged glimpse of work, animals, and travel through the landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include sheep, a mounted herder, a dusty road, rocky hillsides, sparse pines, brush, blue sky, and dark film borders from the contact sheet.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight blur, gate edges, and uneven exposure that give it authentic home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural labor insert, Western landscape cutaway, livestock transition, or memory beat within a 1930s Utah travel sequence.
Historical context: The clip shows livestock being guided along a rural mountain road, offering visual context for ranching and road travel in the American West without proving a specific event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance and a forest sign is noted in the clip description, so likeness, trademark, and location identification should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Utah sheep herding, 8mm ranch footage, horseback herder on rural road, American West livestock, and home-movie sheep flock.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Utah 1939 footage, then wider 1930s Western ranching, livestock, road travel, or national forest visit material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Utah home-movie footage, a flock of sheep crosses a dusty road as a mounted herder follows beneath rocky pine-dotted hills. — A sheep flock moves along a rural mountain road with a horseback herder behind it.

The sheep continue across the Utah mountain road while the horseback herder remains in the background near brush and rocky slopes. — The flock bunches near the road with the mounted herder visible behind them.

A 1939 Utah road scene shows sheep crossing in the foreground while the mounted herder guides them from the roadside. — Sheep cross the dusty road while the horseback rider watches from behind.

At the end of the 1939 Utah clip, sheep graze near low brush and rocky terrain, with the 8mm frame edge visible at right. — A few sheep graze beside brush at the base of a rocky hillside.

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