South Carolina-1958: Vintage 8mm Film Showing Cattle Grazing In A Green Field

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationSouth Carolina, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 South Carolina

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Vintage 8mm Film Showing Cattle Grazing In A Green Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene pastoral scene in South Carolina. A herd of cattle grazes peacefully in a lush green field under a bright blue sky dotted with fluffy white clouds. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and natural camera shake, offering an authentic slice of mid-century rural life. The wide-open landscape and calm animals evoke a sense of quiet nostalgia and Americana.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127283184

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: South Carolina, 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 South Carolina or mid-century American agriculture sequences needing a brief pastoral home-movie cutaway.
Period detail: The open pasture, grazing cattle, simple fence posts, and distant flat horizon may show a rural livestock scene consistent with the supplied 1958 home-movie date.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged roadside or field-edge viewpoint, observing cattle at a distance without posed action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include grazing cattle, green pasture grass, fence posts, a broad blue sky, scattered white clouds, and dark 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The clip carries soft 8mm color, visible grain, mild fading, gate marks, and slight handheld instability that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a rural establishing insert, quiet transition, agricultural cutaway, or memory beat in a mid-century Southern life sequence.
Historical context: As visual context, the clip documents cattle grazing in an open field and reflects everyday rural observation rather than a staged agricultural demonstration.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or obvious private buildings are visible, but copyright, location, and property context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Research matches include 1958 8mm cattle grazing footage, South Carolina pasture home movie, rural livestock field, and mid-century farm landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other South Carolina 1958 material, then broader 1950s rural agriculture and pasture scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 South Carolina 8mm frame showing several cattle spread across a green field under a bright, clouded sky. — Cattle graze across an open pasture with fence posts and a broad sky in view.

1958 South Carolina home-movie frame with cattle grazing in an open pasture, seen through dark 8mm frame edges. — A small group of cattle grazes in the distance across a flat pasture.

1958 South Carolina frame showing a single grazing cow in a broad green field beneath scattered clouds. — A single cow grazes in the pasture as fence posts mark the open field.

1958 South Carolina 8mm frame with one cow grazing near simple fence posts in an open rural pasture. — One cow grazes near fence posts beneath a wide sky with scattered clouds.

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