Idaho-1955: Woman Petting Donkey on Rural Road

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationIdaho, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Woman Petting Donkey on Rural Road — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a donkey roaming a rural street in Idaho. The grainy, blue-tinted footage shows the animal walking past a classic car, with a woman laughing and reaching out to pet it. The scene unfolds in dim, natural light, likely dusk, with a wooden fence visible in the background. The handheld camera follows the donkey’s movement, creating a candid, nostalgic moment of human-animal interaction from mid-century America.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127545793

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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: 1955 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: Idaho, 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 Idaho home-movie requests needing a brief human-animal interaction, roadside life, or mid-century family travel cutaway.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-1950s rural roadside details, including an older car, wooden fencing, open fields, and casual clothing seen in metadata-supported 1955 Idaho footage.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the unstaged reaction as a woman leans from a vehicle and laughs while reaching toward a donkey moving beside the car.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a donkey, a parked or slow-moving car, a woman leaning out, a hand reaching to pet the animal, wooden fence rails, open ground, and dim outdoor light.
Film character: The 8mm scan has heavy grain, blue-purple color shift, soft focus, low exposure, and handheld framing that support its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, rural travel cutaway, comic memory beat, or transition between family-road-trip and farm-animal material.
Historical context: The clip offers a small view of casual mid-century rural life, with a domestic animal moving near a car and a visible adult reacting playfully.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, likeness, and property questions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1955 Idaho 8mm home movie, donkey beside car, rural roadside animal, woman laughing with donkey, and mid-century American home footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel scenes, then with other 1955 Idaho rural footage, then with broader home-movie clips of animals, cars, roadside travel, or candid family reactions.

Still Frames From This Clip

Blue-tinted 1955 Idaho home-movie frame showing a donkey near a car on a dim rural roadside. — A donkey moves near a car in low light beside open rural ground.

1955 Idaho 8mm frame of a donkey walking beside a car, with a rural fence and field in the background. — The donkey passes alongside the car near a fence and open field.

A woman leans from a car in 1955 Idaho home-movie footage, reaching toward a donkey just outside the frame edge. — A woman leans out and extends a hand toward the animal.

1955 Idaho home-movie frame of a smiling woman leaning from a car window toward a donkey beside rural fencing. — The woman laughs while reaching toward the donkey near the car window.

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