Montana-1939: Cows Grazing In An Open Grass Field

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

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Cows Grazing In An Open Grass Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene Montana ranch landscape. Black and white footage shows several cows grazing and resting in a vast, open grass field under an overcast sky. The grainy texture and film scratches are visible throughout, with a dark border framing the scene. Cows move slowly across the dry terrain, some standing while others lie down, conveying a quiet, pastoral moment from the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127546907

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: 1939 Montana ranch footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing a brief rural livestock cutaway from a prewar home-movie source.
Period detail: The sparse open range, black-and-white 8mm image, and cattle in an unfenced-looking field may show late-1930s ranch life without identifiable buildings or machinery.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes grazing cattle from a quiet, amateur vantage point, preserving an unstaged ranch-land moment rather than a composed agricultural record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include cattle standing and lying in dry grass, low rolling hills, open sky, brush at the field edge, dark frame borders, and soft 8mm focus.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, gate edges, mild scratches, soft exposure, and slight handheld instability that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing insert, pastoral transition, livestock cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a Montana or ranching sequence.
Historical context: The footage provides visual context for cattle on open Montana grassland in 1939, while avoiding claims about a named ranch, town, or specific agricultural event.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private structures are visible, but copyright, land access, and any property-related concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Montana cattle footage, black-and-white 8mm ranch home movie, cows grazing open field, and Depression-era rural landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Montana footage, then broader ranching, cattle, grassland, and rural home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Montana 8mm frame showing a cow in dry open grassland beneath low hills and a pale sky. — A cow stands in a broad grass field with rolling hills beyond.

1939 Montana home-movie frame with cattle gathered near brush in a wide, sparse ranch landscape. — Cattle rest and stand near brush in an open ranch field.

1939 Montana 8mm still showing cows spaced across dry grassland under a bright overcast sky. — Cows stand apart across a dry open pasture with hills in the distance.

1939 Montana frame showing a foreground cow and distant cattle across a broad grass field below low hills. — A foreground cow stands while other cattle appear scattered across the distant field.

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