Minnesota USA-1958: Hereford Cattle Standing On Green Grass With Melting Snow On

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

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Hereford Cattle Standing On Green Grass With Melting Snow On — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a herd of Hereford cattle standing in a snowy rural field in Minnesota. The brown and white cows graze and move slowly across the patchy grass, with melting snow covering the ground and bare trees lining the background. The footage shows natural film grain, slight camera shake, and the characteristic look of mid-century home movie footage, evoking a quiet, nostalgic winter day on a farm.

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: 124864373

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: 1950s Minnesota farm-life footage for productions needing a quiet rural livestock cutaway or seasonal agricultural insert.
Period detail: The scene may show mid-century Hereford cattle on a small snowy pasture, with bare trees and patchy thawing ground as visible era-neutral rural clues.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld home-movie view observes cattle grazing and shifting slowly without staging, narration, or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include brown-and-white Hereford cattle, melting snow, green grass, bare winter trees, a wooded fence line, and soft 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld steadiness typical of amateur color home movies.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a rural winter cutaway, livestock insert, seasonal transition, or quiet memory beat within a farm or Midwest sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents everyday cattle keeping in a cold-weather rural setting, without visible machinery, people, signage, or identifiable farm structures.
Research note: No people, faces, brands, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any property-context questions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Minnesota 8mm cattle, Hereford cows in snow, rural farm home movie, and winter pasture footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel farm scenes, then other 1958 Minnesota rural footage, then broader livestock, winter pasture, or Midwest agriculture clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Minnesota 8mm frame showing Hereford cattle gathered on green grass with melting snow and leafless trees behind them. — Hereford cattle stand in a thawing winter pasture bordered by bare trees.

1958 Minnesota home-movie frame with Hereford cattle grazing slowly in a snowy rural field under bare winter trees. — Brown-and-white cattle graze across patchy snow and winter grass.

1958 Minnesota 8mm frame showing cattle crossing a patchy thawing pasture with snow, grass, and bare trees visible. — The herd shifts across the pasture as snow melts into the grass.

1958 Minnesota home-movie frame of Hereford cattle spread across a thawing pasture with bare trees and soft 8mm texture. — Hereford cattle continue grazing in a quiet winter pasture scene.

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