South Carolina-1958: Brown Cows Grazing In Green Pasture Under Cloudy Sky

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

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Brown Cows Grazing In Green Pasture Under Cloudy Sky — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene pastoral scene in South Carolina. A herd of brown and white cows grazes and rests in a lush green field under a vast, cloudy sky. The tranquil moment is framed by the characteristic grain and slight color fading of Super 8 film, with a lone palm tree visible in the distance. The cows are mostly still, some lying down, others standing calmly, embodying a peaceful rural life. This archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American countryside 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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127283204

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 inserts, documentary cutaways, or atmospheric transitions showing cattle in open pasture from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The scene may show mid-century pastureland, with cattle in a broad green field, a low horizon, wire fencing, and a lone distant tree under a cloudy sky.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes a quiet, unstaged rural moment from a fixed home-movie viewpoint, with cattle standing or resting rather than performing for the lens.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include grazing and resting cows, tall green grass, a flat pasture, a distant fence line, a lone tree, cloudy sky, and dark 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame borders that give it clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm rural cutaway, pastoral establishing insert, memory beat, or transition between domestic and countryside scenes.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for rural animal pasture in South Carolina in 1958 without identifying a specific farm, owner, or community.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or obvious private structures are visible, but copyright, location, and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 South Carolina 8mm cattle pasture, vintage rural cows, 1950s home movie farmland, and cloudy sky grazing field footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 South Carolina rural footage, then broader 1950s pasture, cattle, and farm-life scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 South Carolina 8mm frame showing brown and white cows scattered across a green pasture under a wide cloudy sky. — Cows rest and stand in an open green pasture below a cloudy sky.

1958 South Carolina home-movie frame with cattle spread across a flat green pasture and a lone distant tree under clouds. — Cattle stand and lie in a broad pasture with a low horizon and distant tree.

Soft 8mm frame from South Carolina in 1958 showing cows in tall pasture grass beneath a large, mottled cloudy sky. — Cows remain mostly still in tall pasture grass under a broad cloudy sky.

1958 South Carolina 8mm frame showing a quiet pasture scene with cows, green grass, a distant tree, and dark contact-sheet borders. — A quiet cattle pasture appears within visible 8mm contact-sheet borders.

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