Utah USA-1939: Herd Of Sheep Grazing On Cliffside And Donkey In Desert

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

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Herd Of Sheep Grazing On Cliffside And Donkey In Desert — Clip Details

UTAH USA-1939: A herd of sheep and a few black goats graze across a dry, rocky hillside dotted with sparse green shrubs. The 8mm film captures the animals moving slowly through the arid landscape under a bright sky. In the final frame, a lone donkey stands in a barren desert expanse with distant rock formations, showcasing the rugged terrain of the American West. The footage exhibits natural film grain and color shifts typical of vintage home movies.

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: 124763547

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: Utah, 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: 1930s Utah home-movie footage useful for productions needing rural Western grazing animals, arid landscape cutaways, or short archival inserts without visible people.
Period detail: The 8mm color image may show late-1930s travel filming, with sheep, goats, a donkey, rocky slopes, scrub plants, and open desert terrain as the visible era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational pace of a traveler pausing to film animals and terrain rather than a staged agricultural or wildlife sequence.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include grazing sheep, a few dark goats, dry hillside scrub, rocky ground, a lone donkey, bright desert flats, distant rock formations, and frame-edge film borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm home-movie texture through soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, color shift, gate edges, and slight handheld framing.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief rural West insert, a livestock cutaway, a desert transition, or a memory beat within travel, agriculture, or regional history sequences.
Historical context: The views place domestic animals within a sparse Utah desert setting, offering visual context for ranching and travel landscapes without identifying a specific site or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright, location, animal ownership, and broader property context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1930s Utah 8mm sheep grazing, vintage desert livestock footage, home movie donkey in American West, and arid hillside animal cutaways.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Utah material, and then broader Western desert, livestock, ranching, or travel-home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Utah 8mm frame showing sheep and a few dark goats grazing across a scrubby, rocky hillside. — Sheep and goats spread across a dry hillside dotted with low shrubs.

1939 Utah 8mm frame with sheep and dark goats dispersed on an arid hillside with sparse vegetation. — The grazing herd continues across the rocky slope in an arid landscape.

1939 Utah 8mm frame showing a donkey in a barren desert expanse, with distant rock formations washed by bright exposure. — A donkey stands in the bright desert with pale rock formations beyond.

1939 Utah 8mm frame of a lone donkey standing in open desert terrain with distant eroded rock forms. — The donkey is framed against open desert and low rock formations.

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