Montana-1939: View Of Cattle Standing And Grazing In Field On A Cloudy Day

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

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View Of Cattle Standing And Grazing In Field On A Cloudy Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a herd of black and white cattle in a rural Montana field. The cows stand and graze under an overcast sky, with some individuals turning to look toward the camera. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and natural lighting, conveying a quiet, pastoral moment from the late 1930s. The scene is framed by the film's characteristic dark borders, enhancing its nostalgic, archival quality.

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: 127547096

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

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: 1930s rural Montana cattle footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing an authentic home-movie view of livestock in open pasture.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s ranch or farm country, with cattle in an unfenced-looking field, distant low hills, and no visible modern vehicles, signs, or buildings in the selected frames.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes quietly from within or near the herd as several cattle graze, stand, and turn toward the lens in an unstaged rural home-movie moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include black and white cattle, open grass field, overcast sky, distant hills, soft horizon lines, film-frame borders, and light surface grain.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and dark frame edges that give the pastoral scene its physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural cutaway, agricultural insert, quiet transition, or memory beat within material about ranching, livestock, Montana, or Depression-era daily life.
Historical context: The scene documents cattle in open Montana countryside from a home-movie viewpoint, offering visual context for rural animal husbandry without identifying a specific ranch or owner.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or readable property identifiers are visible, but copyright and any property-related use should still be reviewed for the intended production.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1939 Montana cattle 8mm footage, 1930s ranch home movie, black and white cows in field, rural livestock archive clip, and grazing cattle cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1939 Montana rural footage, then with broader 1930s ranching, cattle, pasture, and agricultural home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Montana 8mm frame showing cattle scattered across a grassy field, with one cow near the camera and low trees or brush in the distance. — Cattle stand and graze in a rural Montana field beneath an overcast sky.

1939 Montana home-movie frame of a cattle herd spread through an open field, several animals facing the camera with distant hills beyond. — Several cattle look toward the camera from a wide pasture with hills behind them.

1939 Montana 8mm frame showing cattle gathered in a grassy field, including a cow close to the lens and more animals across the pasture. — Cattle cluster near the camera while the herd extends across the field.

1939 Montana home-movie frame with cattle filling the foreground, more animals across the field, and hazy hills under an overcast sky. — The herd fills the frame as cattle stand across a broad rural field.

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