Idaho-1955: Vintage Footage Of Two Horses Moving In A Field At Sunset

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationIdaho, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Vintage Footage Of Two Horses Moving In A Field At Sunset — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures two horses—a light-colored one and a pinto—moving across a golden field at sunset. The wide, open landscape stretches under a soft, pale sky, with the horses walking slowly through tall grass. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and natural imperfections, evoking a nostalgic, rural American moment. The scene is calm and serene, with the horses appearing relaxed in their natural environment. This archival clip offers authentic 1950s Americana for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127545798

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 or Americana requests needing authentic home-movie footage of horses in an open field at sunset.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century rural pastureland, with no visible buildings, vehicles, signage, or clothing details to further date the scene beyond the supplied 1955 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a simple distant view as the horses move slowly, preserving an unstaged family-film observation of animals in a quiet landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two horses, tall dry grass, a low horizon, pale sunset sky, distant fence or brush line, soft focus, and dark film-gate borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows warm fading, visible grain, slight blur, uneven exposure, dust specks, and contact-sheet framing that reinforce its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural cutaway, reflective transition, establishing insert, or calm memory beat within a 1950s western or family-history sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents everyday rural animal life in an open Idaho field without asserting a named ranch, event, or identifiable community.
Research note: No logos or private structures are visible in these frames, but metadata flags people visible elsewhere, so likeness and source-rights review should remain separate from copyright review.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1955 Idaho 8mm horses in field, vintage rural Americana horse footage, and home movie pasture at sunset.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Idaho 1955 rural scenes, then broader 1950s horse, pasture, and Americana material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 Idaho 8mm frame showing a light horse and a pinto in tall grass near a low horizon at sunset. — Two horses stand together in an open field under a fading sky.

1955 Idaho home-movie frame with two horses paused in a broad grass field against a soft evening sky. — A light horse and pinto remain close together in the pasture.

1955 Idaho 8mm frame showing the horses shifting position in tall grass, filmed from a distant home-movie viewpoint. — The horses move slowly through the grass with the horizon behind them.

1955 Idaho home-movie frame with a pinto facing forward and a light horse nearby in a wide open field. — The pinto turns toward the camera as the other horse stands behind it.

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