Montana-1939: Lonely Girl Cries as Cowboys Herd Cattle in Rural Field

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationMontana, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Montana

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Lonely Girl Cries as Cowboys Herd Cattle in Rural Field — Clip Details

MONTANA-1939: A young girl in a dark dress stands alone in a desolate field, her face turned away as she weeps under a bleak sky. The grainy 8mm film captures her sorrowful figure in black and white, with a faint hand reaching toward her from the foreground. The scene shifts to a wide shot of cowboys on horseback herding cattle across the open plains, their silhouettes moving through the dusty landscape. This vintage home movie footage evokes a sense of isolation and nostalgia, with natural lighting and authentic 1930s Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & whiteNight
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127546938

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 1930s Montana rural-life requests needing brief 8mm home-movie views of cattle, riders, and open field work for documentary or museum sequences.
Period detail: The mounted riders, open pasture, black-and-white 8mm look, and metadata-supported 1939 Montana setting place the scene in late-1930s rural ranching context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distance with an informal, handheld viewpoint as riders move among cattle rather than staging action for the lens.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include cattle in a rough field, riders on horseback, scrubby brush, open sky, distant animals, uneven ground, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, gate shadows, and handheld framing consistent with scanned amateur 8mm physical film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural ranching insert, a memory beat, or a transition between family-home-movie material and broader Western landscape context.
Historical context: The footage visually situates cattle handling as everyday rural labor and leisure in an open Montana field without identifying a specific ranch or event.
Research note: People are visible at distance, so likeness review may still apply; no logos or private property are evident, and copyright clearance is separate from appearance rights.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Montana ranch footage, 1930s cattle herding, cowboys on horseback, black-and-white 8mm home movie, and rural Western field scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Montana 1939 rural footage, then broader 1930s ranching, cattle, horseback, and Western home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A cow crosses a rough Montana field in black-and-white 1939 8mm home-movie footage, with dark frame edges visible. — A single cow moves across uneven pasture ground.

Mounted riders appear to guide cattle across an open Montana field in the 1939 black-and-white home-movie frame. — Horseback riders work among scattered cattle in open pasture.

Two riders on horseback are seen from behind as cattle spread across a rough Montana field in archival 8mm footage. — Two mounted riders watch cattle near a scrubby field edge.

A lone mounted rider appears at the field edge while cattle graze or move in the background in 1939 Montana footage. — A mounted rider pauses while cattle remain scattered across the field.

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