Idaho-1955: Man and Woman Tending Horses in a Dry Prairie Field

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationIdaho, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Man and Woman Tending Horses in a Dry Prairie Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a quiet moment on a vast Idaho prairie. A man and woman walk through dry grass, each carrying a bucket, tending to two horses—one with a distinctive black-and-white coat, the other a pale gray. The wide, open landscape stretches to the horizon under a hazy sky, with a distant vehicle visible. The footage shows natural movement and the characteristic grain and soft focus of Super 8 film, evoking a sense of rural life and nostalgia. A final frame shows a man looking out over the field, emphasizing the expansive, peaceful setting.

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: 127545816

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 American home-movie requests needing Idaho prairie life, horse care, family ranch activity, or quiet documentary cutaways.
Period detail: The clothing, buckets, open dry field, and soft 8mm color stock support a mid-1950s rural home-movie setting without identifying a specific ranch or town.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has unstaged value in the way two adults walk through the grass with buckets while the horses shift, approach, and move away from the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two adults, two horses, dry prairie grass, carrying buckets, a distant vehicle or structure, hazy sky, and open horizon.
Film character: The clip shows soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight exposure haze, and handheld framing typical of amateur 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, rural transition, memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway for family ranching and open-land sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents everyday horse tending in a broad Idaho field, offering social texture around rural domestic life rather than a named public event.
Research note: People are visible and may require likeness review; no logos are apparent, while copyright, location, and any property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1955 Idaho 8mm home movie horses, rural prairie field footage, vintage ranch family activity, and midcentury horse care scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1955 Idaho clips, then broader rural horse, prairie, ranch, or family home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1955 Idaho home-movie frame, two horses move across dry prairie grass under a hazy sky. — Two horses cross the dry prairie field at the start of the clip.

Two adults carrying buckets walk toward horses in a broad Idaho prairie field in this 1955 8mm home-movie frame. — A man and woman tend to horses with buckets in the open field.

A woman and man stand near two horses in a dry Idaho field, with the black-and-white horse facing the camera. — The adults pause near the horses as the animals shift in the grass.

A man in the foreground watches two horses move across the open Idaho prairie in a soft 1955 home-movie frame. — A man looks out across the field as the horses move farther away.

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