Minnesota USA-1958: Herd of Cows in Snowy Pasture

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

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Herd of Cows in Snowy Pasture — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a herd of brown and white cattle standing in a snowy pasture in Minnesota. The cows are clustered together in the cold, with snow covering the ground and a long wooden structure visible in the background. The footage shows natural film grain, slight blurriness, and the characteristic dark borders of an 8mm home movie, evoking a nostalgic mid-century rural American scene.

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: 124864533

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 agriculture requests, winter farm life sequences, documentary cutaways, and archival inserts showing cattle in a snowy pasture.
Period detail: The 8mm frame borders, soft color, and metadata-supported 1958 date place this as mid-century home-movie footage, with a long farm structure visible beyond the herd.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the cattle from a fixed home-movie distance, preserving an unstaged farmyard moment rather than a composed agricultural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include brown and white cattle, snow-covered pasture, dark exposed ground, a long low structure, pale winter sky, film borders, dust specks, and soft focus.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm home-movie texture through visible grain, slight softness, gate borders, minor dust, and uneven exposure across the scanned frames.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural winter cutaway, a memory beat in a family-farm sequence, or a brief transition into livestock and cold-weather agriculture.
Historical context: The footage visually documents cattle kept outdoors in a snowy northern pasture, offering modest social context for mid-century rural life without identifying a specific farm.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any property-related use should still be reviewed against the source and license terms.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm Minnesota farm footage, snowy cattle pasture, mid-century rural home movie, winter livestock herd, and vintage American agriculture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel farm scenes, then other Minnesota 1958 rural footage, then broader 1950s winter livestock or American agriculture material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Minnesota 8mm frame showing brown and white cattle gathered in a snowy pasture with a low farm structure beyond them. — Cattle cluster in a snow-covered pasture, with a long structure visible across the background.

1958 Minnesota home-movie frame with cattle spread across a snow-covered pasture and a long structure behind the herd. — The herd remains grouped in the winter pasture as the camera holds a distant view.

1958 Minnesota 8mm frame showing cattle along a snowy pasture, with a long low structure and winter sky in the distance. — Cattle stand near the bottom of the frame, partly obscured by the soft 8mm exposure and dark borders.

1958 Minnesota home-movie frame of a cattle herd in snow, with a pale sky, low background structure, and visible 8mm scan borders. — The final frame holds on the herd in the snowy field, framed by heavy 8mm borders and soft color.

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