Missouri USA-1961: A Herd Of Cows Feeding In Groups In An Open Field

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationMissouri, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Missouri

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A Herd Of Cows Feeding In Groups In An Open Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a herd of brown and white cows feeding in an open field in Missouri. The cows graze on hay scattered across the dry grass, with a rustic stone wall and a tarp-covered structure visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural camera movement, offering a nostalgic glimpse into rural American farm life during the early 1960s.

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: 124870286

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: 1961 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: Missouri, 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 1960s rural United States documentary requests needing brief 8mm farm-animal cutaways or agricultural home-movie texture.
Period detail: The clip may show early 1960s farm conditions through open pasture, loose hay feeding, a low stone wall, and faded color 8mm stock.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the cattle from a casual home-movie distance, preserving an unstaged view of animals feeding in a field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include brown and white cattle, scattered hay or feed, dry grass, open pasture, a low stone wall, and a tarp-covered background structure.
Film character: The footage carries soft 8mm grain, faded color, uneven exposure, gate edges, dust marks, and slight handheld movement as archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural insert, agricultural transition, farm-life cutaway, or quiet memory beat in a 1960s sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents everyday cattle feeding in an open Missouri field without visible people, signage, machinery, or identifiable commercial branding.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but copyright, location, animal ownership, and any property considerations should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1961 Missouri 8mm cattle feeding, vintage farm field footage, rural American cows, and home movie livestock cutaways.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1961 Missouri material, then broader rural farm and livestock home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Missouri 8mm frame showing brown and white cattle feeding on scattered hay in an open field beside a low stone wall. — Cattle feed in small groups near a low stone wall in an open field.

1961 Missouri 8mm frame with cattle feeding in an open pasture near a rustic wall and a partially visible cow at the frame edge. — A small herd feeds in the field while one cow is partly cropped at the right edge.

1961 Missouri home-movie frame showing brown and white cows clustered around feed on dry grass with open land behind them. — Cows cluster around feed on dry grass in the open field.

1961 Missouri 8mm frame with cattle feeding in the foreground and additional cows dispersed across an open rural field. — Foreground cattle feed while other cows stand farther back in the field.

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