Montana-1939: Rancher on Horseback Herding Cattle in Pen

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

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Rancher on Horseback Herding Cattle in Pen — Clip Details

MONTANA-1939: A rancher on horseback herds cattle through a muddy pen on a rural ranch. The black-and-white 8mm footage captures the man in a wide-brimmed hat guiding his horse as cows move through the enclosure. The scene unfolds in a dusty, open landscape with rolling hills in the background, showcasing authentic mid-20th century ranch life. The grainy texture and film edges reflect the vintage Super 8 aesthetic, offering a nostalgic glimpse into American frontier agriculture.

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: 127546918

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: 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: Useful for documentary or educational requests needing 1930s Montana ranch work, cattle handling, and rural horseback labor in authentic 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The wide-brimmed hat, mounted herding, wooden pens, open hills, and black-and-white 8mm look support a late-1930s ranch setting in Montana.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes ranch activity from a distance as a rider guides cattle through muddy ground, giving the scene an unstaged family-film perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include cattle in open pasture, a mounted rancher, muddy corrals, wooden fencing, rolling hills, distant trees, and rough film-frame edges.
Film character: The clip has soft black-and-white contrast, visible grain, gate edges, slight blur, and handheld framing consistent with original 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural-life insert, ranching cutaway, transition into livestock work, or brief memory beat for western agricultural history.
Historical context: The footage visually documents cattle handling on a rural ranch before modern mechanized stockyard imagery dominates the scene, without proving broader industry claims.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and property considerations should be evaluated separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Montana ranch footage, 8mm cattle herding, horseback rancher in corral, Depression-era rural West, and vintage home movie livestock work.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Montana 1939 rural scenes, then broader 1930s ranching, cattle, and horseback-labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Black-and-white 1939 Montana ranch footage showing cattle spread across open pasture below low hills. — Cattle stand in an open ranch landscape with distant hills.

Cattle gather and move across muddy ranch ground in black-and-white 8mm footage from Montana, 1939. — Cattle move through a muddy ranch area with a larger herd beyond.

A mounted rancher in a wide-brimmed hat rides through a muddy corral area beside wooden fencing in Montana, 1939. — A rider approaches cattle near wooden ranch pens.

A horse and cattle stand in a muddy fenced ranch pen, with more animals and fencing visible behind them in 1939 Montana footage. — Livestock stands inside a muddy fenced ranch pen.

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