Montana-1939: Taking Care Of The Horses On Our Family Farm In A Weekend

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

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Taking Care Of The Horses On Our Family Farm In A Weekend — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a man tending to horses on a Montana family farm. The black-and-white footage shows him grooming a dark horse with a white blaze, adjusting its bridle, and standing near other horses in a rustic paddock. The man wears a wide-brimmed hat and period clothing, with wooden fences and bare trees in the background. The grainy, slightly faded quality and natural lighting evoke a nostalgic, authentic slice of rural American life from the late 1930s.

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: 127547235

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing late-1930s rural Montana home-movie footage of farm horse care for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences.
Period detail: The wide-brimmed hat, work clothes, wooden paddock fencing, saddled horses, and black-and-white 8mm texture support a late-1930s rural farm setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged family-film feel as a man tends and watches horses in a working paddock rather than performing for a formal camera setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include horses, a man in a hat, a saddle or bridle, wooden fences, bare trees, open ground, and distant farm structures.
Film character: The footage shows grain, soft focus, edge vignetting, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing typical of scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural-life insert, horse-care cutaway, transition into a farm sequence, or quiet memory beat about family labor.
Historical context: The imagery suggests everyday animal handling on a rural family property, with no visible mechanized activity beyond distant farm equipment or structures.
Research note: A person is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, property, and location permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1939 Montana farm home movie, 8mm horse care footage, rural family paddock, man tending horses, and 1930s ranch life.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Montana 1939 family-farm clips, then broader rural horse-care or Depression-era home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Montana home-movie footage, a man in work clothes stands close to horses in a rural paddock. — A man tends horses beside a fence on a rural Montana farm.

A rural Montana paddock appears with bare trees, fencing, open ground, and a partial person at the right edge. — The camera looks across the farm paddock toward fences and bare trees.

A man in period work clothes stands in a fenced Montana farm paddock while a horse moves nearby. — A man watches a horse move through the paddock.

A saddled horse walks past a man in a rural Montana paddock, with fences and farm equipment in the background. — A saddled horse passes the man inside the fenced paddock.

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