Montana-1939: Cattle Running Through Field On A Clear Day

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

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Cattle Running Through Field On A Clear Day — Clip Details

MONTANA-1939: Black-and-white 8mm home movie footage captures a herd of cattle running through a rural field on a clear day. The grainy, high-contrast film shows cows and calves moving across open farmland, with wooden fencing and sparse trees in the background. A lone figure on horseback appears in the distance, overseeing the animals. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—film grain, soft focus, and natural light—evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of mid-20th century American ranch life.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127547084

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 rural Montana archive requests needing brief cattle, ranch field, or American farm-life inserts for documentary, museum, or education edits.
Period detail: The open pasture, simple wooden fencing, horseback oversight, and black-and-white 8mm source may show late-1930s ranch or farm practice without identifying a specific property.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld home-movie view observes cattle movement from the edge of a field, preserving an informal ranch-life moment rather than staged agricultural coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include cattle and calves, open pasture, wooden fence rails, sparse trees, distant hills, a horseback figure, and heavy frame-edge vignetting.
Film character: The clip has dense black-and-white grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, gate shadows, and slight handheld instability typical of small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short ranch-life cutaway, rural transition, livestock insert, or memory beat within a sequence about Western agriculture.
Historical context: The footage visually places cattle handling in an open rural landscape, suggesting everyday ranch work while avoiding claims about ownership, breed, or exact site.
Research note: Copyright, location, and any likeness or property concerns should be reviewed separately because a distant person appears and the land is not identified.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Montana 8mm cattle footage, black-and-white ranch home movie, cattle running in field, or rural American livestock scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1939 Montana rural footage, and then with broader cattle, ranching, or farm-life material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Black-and-white 1939 Montana 8mm frame showing cattle in an open field near low wooden fencing and sparse trees. — Cattle stand or move near fence rails in an open rural field.

Black-and-white 1939 Montana frame with cattle spread across pasture, low fence rails, and a distant figure on horseback. — Cattle move across pasture while a horseback figure appears in the distance.

Black-and-white 1939 Montana 8mm frame showing a herd of cattle and calves moving across a wide rural pasture. — A herd of cattle runs through the open field.

Black-and-white 1939 Montana frame with cattle in a pasture, including one close foreground animal and a distant tree line. — Cattle pass through the field with sparse trees in the background.

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