Montana-1939: Large Herd Of Cattle Walking Through Field On A Clear Day

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

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Large Herd Of Cattle Walking Through Field On A Clear Day — Clip Details

MONTANA-1939: A large herd of black and white cattle moves across a rural field on a clear day, captured on 8mm home movie film. The grainy black-and-white footage shows the cows walking through an open pasture with a long wooden shelter in the background. The camera remains mostly stationary, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American farm life. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics, including visible grain, slight motion blur, and dark borders, evoking a sense of historical authenticity and rural simplicity.

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: 127547067

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1930s rural Montana agriculture requests needing authentic 8mm cattle, pasture, and ranch-life cutaways for documentary or educational use.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1930s ranch conditions through open pasture, simple wooden shelter structures, and black-and-white amateur 8mm photography.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a fixed home-movie viewpoint as cattle move through the field without staged action or visible human direction.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large cattle herd, open pasture, long wooden shelter, distant tree line, low hills, bright sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: Grain, soft focus, slight blur, uneven exposure, and gate borders give the short 8mm scan a period home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a rural insert, agricultural transition, livestock cutaway, or brief memory beat in a Montana or ranching sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents cattle moving through a western rural field, offering context for everyday ranch landscapes without making claims about a specific operation.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status and any property or location concerns for their use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1939 Montana cattle herd, 8mm ranch footage, black-and-white pasture cattle, and 1930s American farm life.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel ranch material, then other Montana 1939 footage, then broader 1930s livestock, pasture, and rural agriculture scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Montana 8mm frame showing a cattle herd moving across an open pasture under a bright sky. — Cattle move through a rural pasture, seen through dark film-frame edges.

Black-and-white 8mm view of cattle walking across a Montana field with a distant hillside beyond. — The herd continues across the open field with the horizon visible behind it.

1939 Montana ranch scene with cattle clustered in pasture and a long wooden shelter in the background. — Cattle cluster near a long shelter structure at the edge of the field.

Black-and-white 8mm frame of a large cattle herd moving past a wooden shelter in rural Montana. — A broad view shows the herd moving through pasture in front of the shelter.

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