Montana-1939: Cattle at Waterhole in Open Field

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationMontana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Montana

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Cattle at Waterhole in Open Field — Clip Details

MONTANA-1939: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a pair of black and white cattle standing in a vast, open field near a waterhole on a clear day. The grainy black-and-white footage shows the animals grazing and moving slowly across the landscape, with patches of snow visible in the background. Shot on 8mm film, the clip features natural film grain, slight camera shake, and the characteristic dark borders of a home movie projector. This archival footage evokes a sense of rural Americana and pastoral life in the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127546889

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: 1939 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: Montana, 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: 1930s Montana home-movie cattle footage for rural life, ranching, western landscape, or pastoral cutaway needs in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm look, open range setting, and metadata-supported 1939 Montana date place the scene in late-1930s rural home-movie documentation.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes cattle at a distance and then nearer to the waterhole, giving the clip an unstaged ranch-visit or family-travel viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two black-and-white cattle, open field, water patches, low hills, brush, snow or pale ground patches, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, handheld framing, and dark gate edges that support its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural insert, western landscape transition, livestock cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1930s Montana sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows cattle grazing near open water in a broad Montana field, offering visual context for rural land use without identifying a specific ranch.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private buildings are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any location or property concerns for their use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Montana cattle, 1930s 8mm ranch footage, black-and-white home movie livestock, and cattle near waterhole.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1939 Montana material, then with rural ranching, cattle, winter field, or western landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Montana 8mm frame showing a cow in an open field with distant cattle, water patches, and dark film borders. — A cow stands in a broad field with water and distant cattle behind it.

Black-and-white 8mm view of cattle spread across a Montana field, framed by dark home-movie gate edges. — Cattle appear as small figures across the open field.

1939 Montana home-movie frame of two cattle near a waterhole, with open ground and pale patches behind them. — Two cattle stand near water in the open field.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from 1939 Montana showing two cattle near brush, water patches, and open range. — The pair of cattle remains near the waterhole at the edge of the field.

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