Minnesota USA-1958: Cows In The Snow Walking Around Looking For Food

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

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Cows In The Snow Walking Around Looking For Food — Clip Details

MINNESOTA USA-1958: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a snowy farm scene with a herd of cows walking through a snow-covered field. Two people, one wearing a red hat and a dark coat, stand near the animals, observing them as they move across the icy ground. Snow blankets the barns and surrounding landscape under a pale blue sky, with bare trees lining the horizon. The footage shows natural movement and the characteristic grain of 8mm film, evoking a nostalgic, rural winter atmosphere 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: 124864464

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.

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: 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 to documentary requests for rural winter agriculture, livestock care, and home-movie views of cattle in snow.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage may show late-1950s farm dress, open snowy pasture, low barns, fencing, and unpaved winter ground consistent with the supplied 1958 Minnesota metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The scene has an unstaged home-movie feel as two bundled people stand near the herd while the cattle move through the snowy field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include cattle, two people in winter clothing, snow-covered pasture, barns, fences, bare trees, pale sky, and dark 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The clip carries soft focus, visible grain, slight handheld framing, muted winter color, and contact-print edge darkness characteristic of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural winter cutaway, a livestock insert, a seasonal transition, or a memory beat in a family-farm sequence.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for everyday cold-weather farm life, showing cattle outside near barns and people observing them without staged action.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and any property permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Minnesota farm cows in snow, vintage 8mm cattle pasture, rural winter livestock home movie, and snowy barn footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1958 Minnesota farm scenes, then broader rural winter livestock or home-movie agriculture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Minnesota farm scene with cattle in snow, two bundled people nearby, barns, fencing, and bare winter trees in the background. — Two people stand near a small herd of cattle in a snow-covered farmyard.

Cattle move through a snowy Minnesota pasture in 1958, with a barn, fence line, and leafless tree visible behind the herd. — Cattle spread out across a winter pasture near a snow-topped barn.

Snowy 1958 Minnesota farm view with cattle crossing the field, barn buildings, a fence line, and winter trees along the horizon. — The herd moves across icy ground with farm buildings in the background.

Cattle cluster in a snow-covered Minnesota field in 1958, with a long barn, fencing, bare trees, and pale winter sky in view. — Cattle gather and walk across a snowy pasture below a long farm building.

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