Montana-1939: Horse Walks To Man Wearing Black Hat On A Clear Day

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

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Horse Walks To Man Wearing Black Hat On A Clear Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a man in a dark hat and clothing standing in a dusty corral as a saddled horse walks toward him. The man gently guides the horse, adjusting its bridle before it begins to walk away. The scene unfolds under a clear sky, with wooden fences and farm equipment visible in the background. The grainy black-and-white footage, framed by film borders, evokes a nostalgic, rural Montana 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: 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: 127547256

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 1930s Montana rural-life requests needing editorial 8mm footage of horse handling, ranch work atmosphere, or a quiet home-movie cutaway.
Period detail: The saddled horse, wooden corral fencing, open dirt yard, and black-and-white 8mm texture support a late-1930s rural Montana setting from the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged value in the man's calm approach to the horse, his brief handling of the bridle, and the animal's ordinary movement through the corral.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a saddled dark horse, an adult man in a dark hat, wooden rail fencing, dusty ground, distant farm or ranch equipment, open sky, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows grainy black-and-white 8mm character with soft focus, gate edges, uneven exposure, and slight handheld instability that read as home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief rural insert, ranch-life transition, animal-handling cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a 1930s or Western family-history sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents an everyday relationship between a person and a working or riding horse in an open corral, without enough visual evidence to identify a specific ranch or event.
Research note: A visible adult likeness may require review for some uses, while copyright, likeness, and any property concerns should be assessed separately before licensing decisions.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Montana 8mm horse footage, 1930s ranch corral home movie, man handling saddled horse, and vintage rural Western family film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Montana or 1939 rural footage, then broader horse, ranch, corral, and Depression-era home-movie themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Montana home-movie footage, a saddled horse approaches an adult man in a dark hat inside a fenced dirt corral. — A saddled horse moves toward a man waiting in the corral.

The man stands close to the saddled horse in the Montana corral, with wooden fencing and ranch equipment visible behind them. — The man meets the horse and begins handling it near the fence line.

In the fenced Montana corral, the man appears to hold or adjust the horse's bridle while the saddled animal stands still. — The man handles the horse's bridle as it stands in the dirt yard.

The saddled horse walks across the dusty Montana corral, leaving the man partly visible near the edge of the frame. — The horse walks away through the corral after the brief handling moment.

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