Montana-1939: Herd Of Bovines On Ranch With Person In Corral Close Ups Of Bovine

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

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Herd Of Bovines On Ranch With Person In Corral Close Ups... — Clip Details

MONTANA-1939: Black-and-white 8mm home movie footage captures a herd of bovines on a ranch, with close-ups of cows and calves in a grassy field. A farmer in a hat and work clothes herds the animals, guiding them across the open landscape. The grainy, high-contrast film shows natural movement and rural life, with the camera focusing on individual faces and the group in motion. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century American farming life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127547154

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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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: Supports requests for 1930s Montana ranching, cattle handling, and rural American home-movie footage for documentary inserts or historical cutaways.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm look, work clothes, brimmed hat, open pasture, and cattle herd may show everyday ranch life in Montana around 1939.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie feel, moving between close animal faces and a ranch worker guiding cattle in an open field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include cattle faces, calves, a herd in pasture, a ranch worker in a hat, grassy ground, open fields, and distant tree lines.
Film character: The footage carries dense grain, soft focus, high contrast, rounded frame edges, and handheld framing typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural-life insert, livestock cutaway, transition into ranch work, or brief memory beat about Depression-era farm settings.
Historical context: The scene visually documents cattle handling and human-animal work on an open ranch landscape without enough evidence to identify a specific property or family.
Research note: A person and animal faces are visible, so copyright, likeness, location, and any ranch or family identification should be reviewed before final use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Montana ranch footage, black-and-white 8mm cattle herd, home movie bovines, and ranch worker in pasture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Montana 1939 ranch scenes, then broader 1930s livestock and rural labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Black-and-white 1939 Montana home-movie frame showing cattle faces close to the camera in a pasture. — Cattle stand close to the camera in a grassy ranch field.

Close black-and-white frame of a white-faced bovine among the herd, with soft 8mm focus and dark frame edges. — A white-faced bovine fills the frame among the herd.

1939 Montana ranch footage frame with a hat-wearing person guiding cattle across an open pasture. — A ranch worker stands beside cattle moving through the field.

Black-and-white home-movie frame of a Montana ranch worker standing with cattle in an open field around 1939. — The ranch worker pauses as cattle pass through the pasture.

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