Minnesota USA-1958: Cows In The Snow

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

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Cows In The Snow — Clip Details

MINNESOTA USA-1958: A herd of brown and white cattle stands in a snow-covered field, their breath visible in the cold air. The vintage 8mm film captures the scene with characteristic grain and soft focus, showing a rural farm setting with a barn and distant buildings under a pale blue sky. The cows shift slowly, some turning to face the camera, while others graze on the sparse snow-covered ground. This authentic home movie footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American agriculture and winter life on a farm.

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: 124864430

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 footage suited for documentary or educational edits needing a brief winter agriculture cutaway with cattle in snow.
Period detail: The scene may show a mid-century rural farm setting, with open cattle yard, low farm buildings, snow cover, and the soft color rendering of 8mm home-movie film.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the herd from a fixed, informal distance as the cattle stand and slowly shift in the snowy yard, giving the clip an unstaged family-film perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include brown and white cattle, snow-covered ground, low farm buildings, fencing or rail lines, a pale winter sky, and dark 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, muted winter color, and contact-print framing that contribute to its archival home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, rural winter transition, agricultural context cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1950s farm sequence.
Historical context: The footage places cattle outdoors in a snowy Minnesota farm environment, offering visual context for cold-weather rural life without identifying the farm or operation.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, farm property context, and any location identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1958 Minnesota cattle in snow, 1950s farm home movie, 8mm winter agriculture footage, and rural American livestock yard.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel farm scenes, then other Minnesota 1958 rural footage, and then broader 1950s winter livestock or agriculture material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Brown and white cattle stand on snow-covered ground in a Minnesota farm setting, captured in soft 1958 8mm color footage. — Cattle stand in a snowy farm yard with low buildings beyond them.

A small herd of cattle stands in snow near low farm structures in Minnesota, seen through grainy 1958 8mm home-movie footage. — Cattle cluster in the snow near a low farm building.

Several brown and white cattle are spread across a snowy Minnesota farm yard, with one larger animal closer to the camera in 1958 home-movie footage. — A cattle yard in winter, with animals standing across the snowy ground.

Cattle remain in a snow-covered Minnesota farm field, with low buildings and a bare tree visible in soft 1958 8mm footage. — Cattle in a snowy field with farm buildings and a bare tree beyond.

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