Minnesota USA-1958: Hereford Cattle Grazing In Field

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Minnesota

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Hereford Cattle Grazing In Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a herd of brown and white Hereford cattle grazing in a dry, open field in Minnesota. The cows, including a calf, feed on scattered hay bales under an overcast sky, with a simple wire fence and bare trees visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural camera movement, offering authentic rural Americana from the late 1950s.

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: 124863114

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: 1958 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: Minnesota, 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

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: Useful for 1950s rural Minnesota or Midwestern agriculture sequences needing brief archival home-movie views of Hereford cattle feeding in an open field.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1950s small-farm pasture conditions, with wire fencing, loose hay, bare trees, and cattle filmed without visible modern equipment.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged family-film view of livestock at pasture, observed from a simple handheld position rather than arranged for a formal agricultural film.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include brown and white Hereford cattle, a calf, scattered hay, dry grass, a wire fence, bare trees, open horizon, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The scan carries soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight fading, gate marks, and mild handheld instability that support its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural cutaway, agricultural insert, transition into farm life, or quiet memory beat within a 1950s Americana sequence.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for cattle keeping and open-field feeding in a rural Minnesota setting, without identifying a specific farm or owner.
Research note: No people, logos, or branded signs are visible, but copyright, location, animal ownership, and property context should still be checked for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Minnesota 8mm cattle footage, Hereford cows grazing, rural home movie farm field, and midcentury livestock cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel farm footage, then other Minnesota 1958 rural scenes, then broader 1950s livestock, pasture, and Midwestern agriculture clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Minnesota 8mm frame showing Hereford cattle and a calf feeding on scattered hay in a fenced rural field. — Hereford cattle graze and feed on hay in an open Minnesota field.

Hereford cattle feed in a dry Minnesota pasture, with wire fencing and a pale sky behind them. — Cattle feed near a wire fence in the open pasture.

1958 rural Minnesota frame with a Hereford cow near loose hay and bare trees beyond the field. — A Hereford cow stands near hay with winter-bare trees behind the pasture.

Hereford cow feeding from scattered hay in a dry Minnesota field, with bare trees and 8mm film wear visible. — A cow feeds from loose hay at the edge of a dry field.

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