Montana-1939: Cows Head-Butting in Open Field

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

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Cows Head-Butting in Open Field — Clip Details

MONTANA-1939: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a herd of black and white cows in a vast, open field under a clear sky. The grainy black-and-white footage shows the cattle moving across the landscape, with close-ups of individual cows and a pair engaging in head-butting behavior. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics, including soft focus and natural film grain, evoking a nostalgic, rural American atmosphere from the late 1930s.

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: 127547130

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: Useful for 1930s rural Montana archive requests needing cattle, ranch-land, or agricultural home-movie footage for documentary, museum, or editorial context.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm look and open grazing landscape support the 1939 metadata, while visible details are limited to cattle, field terrain, and distant low hills.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, observing cattle movement and head-butting behavior from a nearby field position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include black-and-white cattle, open pasture, uneven grass, bare ground, low hills, clear sky, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, exposure variation, and handheld framing give the clip a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural insert, livestock cutaway, ranch-life transition, or brief memory beat within a 1930s agricultural sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually situates cattle in an open Montana field, offering rural livestock context without showing people, buildings, machinery, or identifiable property.
Research note: No people, faces, brands, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any broader reel provenance should still be checked before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Montana cattle footage, 1930s 8mm ranch home movies, cows in open field, and vintage livestock head-butting behavior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel rural scenes, then other 1939 Montana footage, and finally broader 1930s cattle, ranching, or field-life material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Montana 8mm frame showing a herd of black-and-white cattle standing and moving across open pasture. — A herd of cattle gathers in an open Montana field.

1939 Montana home-movie frame with two cows on rough open pasture, one dark cow side-on and one white-faced cow front-facing. — Two cows stand in a sparse field during the rural livestock scene.

1939 Montana 8mm frame showing several cows in open pasture, with two animals lowering their heads as if butting or grazing. — Cows cluster in the field, with two lowering their heads near each other.

1939 Montana home-movie frame with three cows moving across rough pasture, one white-faced cow closest to the camera. — Three cows move across the open field near the end of the clip.

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