Missouri USA-1961: Cows Grazing While Woman Bales Hay

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

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Cows Grazing While Woman Bales Hay — Clip Details

MISSOURI USA-1961: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a rural farm scene, showing cows grazing in a sun-drenched field bordered by trees and a wooden fence. The footage transitions to a barn interior where a person, likely a woman, uses a pitchfork to bale hay or straw. The grainy, monochrome image and natural lighting evoke a nostalgic, authentic slice of mid-20th century American farm life, with the handheld camera movement adding to the documentary feel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124870373

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: 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s rural American farm-life requests needing brief home-movie views of cattle, barn work, and hay handling in Missouri.
Period detail: The 8mm monochrome footage may show early-1960s farm practice through open pasture, wooden fencing, a simple barn structure, loose hay or straw, and hand tool labor.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes everyday farm activity without staging, moving from grazing cattle to a person working with a pitchfork inside or beside a barn.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include cows in a field, trees, fencing, barn framing, loose hay or straw, a pitchfork, and a partially visible adult worker.
Film character: Grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and handheld framing give the short clip a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural insert, agricultural transition, livestock cutaway, or memory beat within a family farm or mid-century America sequence.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for small-scale farm labor and livestock surroundings, while avoiding broader claims beyond the visible Missouri home-movie scene.
Research note: People are visible but not identifiable in detail; copyright, likeness, location, and property issues should be reviewed separately before final use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 Missouri farm home movie, 8mm cattle grazing, barn hay pitchfork, rural livestock footage, and mid-century American agriculture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Missouri 1961 farm scenes, then broader 1960s rural livestock and barn-work footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Missouri home-movie frame showing cattle scattered across a pasture bordered by trees and a fence. — Cattle graze in a tree-lined pasture at the start of the farm scene.

A partly obscured adult worker appears near barn structure and loose hay or straw in the 1961 Missouri farm footage. — The scene shifts from pasture to a barn area with hay or straw underfoot.

An adult farm worker handles hay or straw with a pitchfork beside wooden barn framing in Missouri home-movie footage. — A farm worker bends into the hay or straw with a pitchfork near the barn structure.

The final frame shows a partially visible worker using or holding a pitchfork around loose hay or straw in a barn setting. — The barn-work view continues with the worker partly hidden by shadows and hay.

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