Lincoln Nebraska-1947: A Boy Riding A Bucking Calf In A Dusty Yard

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Year1947
Decade1940s
LocationLincoln, Nebraska, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Boy Riding A Bucking Calf In A Dusty Yard — Clip Details

LINCOLN NEBRASKA-1947: A young boy in a light-colored shirt and dark pants rides a small calf across a dusty, sunlit yard. The calf bucks and struggles as the boy clings to its back, while another person in a dark suit watches nearby. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures a candid, humorous moment of rural life with visible grain and natural lighting. The scene unfolds in a simple outdoor setting, likely a farm or backyard, with the boy's determined grip and the calf's movement creating a lively, nostalgic interaction. This vintage home movie clip offers authentic, unscripted Americana from the late 1940s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125877319

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: 1947 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Lincoln, Nebraska, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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 1940s Americana edits needing brief home-movie footage of rural play, livestock handling, or a comic backyard farm moment.
Period detail: The plain clothing, dusty open yard, and 8mm black-and-white home-movie look support the 1947 Lincoln, Nebraska metadata without adding identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged family or community moment as a boy tries to stay mounted on a restless calf while nearby adults watch.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small calf, a young rider, adult onlookers, a dusty sunlit yard, strong shadows, and the contact-sheet frame edges.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, dust specks, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, comic cutaway, rural childhood memory beat, or transition within a sequence about mid-century family life.
Historical context: The scene may show informal livestock handling or backyard farm play in postwar Nebraska, presented only as home-movie evidence rather than a documented event.
Research note: People and a likely minor are visible, so likeness and contextual review may be needed; copyright status is separate from personal or property rights.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1940s 8mm home movie calf riding, Lincoln Nebraska rural yard, boy on calf, vintage livestock play, and mid-century Americana.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Lincoln 1947 scenes, then broader 1940s rural childhood or livestock home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1947 Lincoln, Nebraska home-movie footage, a boy rides a small calf as an adult stands close in a sunlit yard. — A young rider is helped onto or steadied on a calf at the start of the scene.

The calf moves through the bright yard as the young rider leans forward, with open ground and shadows around them. — The calf carries the rider across the yard as the action moves into open sunlight.

The young rider grips the calf as it moves past an adult observer in the dusty Lincoln, Nebraska yard. — The rider clings to the calf while an adult watches from nearby.

Near the end of the 1947 home-movie clip, an adult reaches toward the calf as a foreground figure partially blocks the view. — An adult reaches toward the calf as the scene becomes partly obscured by a passing figure.

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