South Carolina-1958: Cattle Grazing in Pasture

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationSouth Carolina, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 South Carolina

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Cattle Grazing in Pasture — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene rural scene in South Carolina. A lone cow grazes peacefully in a lush green pasture under a bright blue sky filled with fluffy white clouds. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows subtle film grain and natural color fading typical of the era. Later frames reveal a small herd of cattle, including brown and white bovines, scattered across the open field. The tranquil pastoral setting evokes a sense of quiet Americana and nostalgic farm life.

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: 127283193

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: This clip fits archival requests for 1950s rural South Carolina farm atmosphere, especially documentary cutaways needing cattle, pasture, and quiet agricultural landscape footage.
Period detail: The visible 8mm color, soft grain, modest rural pasture, and open fence line support a mid-century home-movie impression consistent with the supplied 1958 South Carolina metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the field from behind a dark window or structural frame, giving the scene an unstaged home-movie perspective rather than a composed agricultural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green pasture, grazing cattle, a low horizon, scattered fence posts, a vertical pole, blue sky, white clouds, and dark foreground framing.
Film character: The footage carries period 8mm texture through soft focus, natural color fading, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and the contact-frame borders of a home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a pastoral insert, rural transition, memory beat, or establishing cutaway for mid-century farm life without people in frame.
Historical context: The scene visually documents open grazing land and cattle in a rural Southern setting, while avoiding any specific claim about farm ownership, economics, or local events.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status and any property-related concerns separately from visible likeness or brand issues.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1958 South Carolina 8mm cows in pasture, vintage home movie cattle grazing, rural farm field blue sky, and mid-century pastoral cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1958 South Carolina rural material, then broader vintage 8mm farm, pasture, and cattle scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 South Carolina 8mm frame showing a lone cow grazing in an open green pasture under a blue sky with white clouds, partially framed by dark vertical edges. — Lone cow grazing in open pasture.

1958 South Carolina home-movie frame of a single cow in a green field, with a vertical pole, low fence post, distant horizon, and cloud-filled blue sky. — Cow in pasture beneath summer clouds.

1958 South Carolina 8mm still with a cow grazing in an open pasture, a low rural horizon, a vertical pole, and soft cloud cover overhead. — Grazing cow and low rural horizon.

1958 South Carolina home-movie frame showing a small group of cattle spread across a pasture, including brown and white animals, with fence posts and a distant tree visible. — Small herd scattered across the pasture.

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