Montana-1939: Herd of Cows Grazing in Arid Pasture

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

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Herd of Cows Grazing in Arid Pasture — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a herd of brown and white cows in a vast, arid Montana pasture. The black-and-white footage shows the animals grazing and resting across the open landscape under a flat sky, with rolling hills in the distance. The grainy texture and film edge borders evoke a nostalgic, archival feel, offering a quiet glimpse into rural farm life during 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: 127546911

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

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports archival requests for 1930s Montana rural ranching, open pasture grazing, and documentary cutaways of cattle in dry Western landscape.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm look, open rangeland, and sparse pasture may show late-1930s rural Montana cattle grazing without visible modern infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes quietly from a distance as cattle graze and rest, giving the clip an unstaged home-movie view of everyday ranch life.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include cattle in dry grass, rolling hills, flat sky, scattered animals in the distance, rough pasture ground, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage has a grainy black-and-white 8mm texture with soft focus, slight exposure variation, and visible gate edges from the original film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural establishing insert, livestock cutaway, transition between ranch scenes, or quiet memory beat in a period montage.
Historical context: The clip shows cattle spread across an arid pasture, offering visual context for rural animal husbandry and open-range landscape in Montana.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable property identifiers are visible, but users should assess copyright status separately from location or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1930s Montana cattle footage, 8mm home movie cows grazing, dry pasture ranch scene, and rural livestock cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other Montana 1939 rural footage, and then with broader ranching, livestock, pasture, or Western landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Black-and-white 1939 Montana home-movie frame showing cattle spread across an arid pasture below distant rolling hills. — Cattle graze and lie in open pasture with a low hill line in the background.

Black-and-white 1939 Montana frame with one cow in the foreground and scattered cattle across open dry rangeland. — A single cow stands apart while other cattle dot the open pasture behind it.

Black-and-white 1939 Montana home-movie frame showing a cow walking across sparse pasture beneath a distant hill. — A cow moves across the dry field with another animal visible farther back.

Black-and-white 1939 Montana frame showing a cow grazing in a wide, dry pasture under a pale sky. — A grazing cow appears small against the broad pasture and low hills.

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