Montana-1939: Large Herd Of Cows Standing Walking And Grazing In Open Field

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

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Large Herd Of Cows Standing Walking And Grazing In Open... — Clip Details

MONTANA-1939: A large herd of black and white cows stands and moves slowly across an open, grassy field under an overcast sky. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the animals in a rural setting, with some cows looking directly at the camera while others graze. The grainy, monochrome image and natural lighting evoke a sense of quiet farm life in the late 1930s. The frame edges show the characteristic vignette of vintage home movie footage.

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: 127547103

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: 1939 Montana ranching footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing real rural livestock material from late-1930s home movies.
Period detail: The monochrome 8mm frames may show late-1930s cattle ranching on open Montana range, with no buildings, vehicles, signage, or modern equipment visible.
Home-movie behavior: The herd moves naturally around the camera, with several cattle facing the lens, giving the clip an unstaged home-movie record of ranch animals at close range.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large black-and-white cattle herd, grassy open field, low hills, overcast sky, distant animals, soft horizon, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage has pronounced 8mm grain, soft focus, mild flicker, edge vignetting, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of an original physical home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural-life cutaway, livestock insert, transition between ranch scenes, or quiet memory beat within a 1930s Montana sequence.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for cattle kept on open grassland in Montana, while avoiding claims about ranch ownership, breed, or exact site beyond the supplied metadata.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private structures are visible, but users should still review copyright status separately from any property or location-identification concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Montana cattle herd, 8mm ranch footage, black-and-white cows in field, open range livestock, and vintage home movie farm animals.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1939 Montana material, then with rural ranching, livestock, grazing, and open-field animal scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Montana 8mm frame showing a large cattle herd in open grassland, with several cows facing the camera and low hills on the horizon. — Cattle gather close to the camera in an open Montana field.

1939 Montana 8mm frame of cattle standing and moving through open grassland under a pale overcast sky. — The herd spreads across the field as cattle move past the lens.

Black-and-white 8mm view of a Montana cattle herd clustered in open pasture, with low hills and an overcast sky in the distance. — Cattle cluster near the camera while others remain scattered across the field.

1939 Montana home-movie frame showing cows standing in a broad open field, with a soft hillside horizon and darkened film edges. — Cows stand in a broad open field with low hills in the background.

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