Montana-1939: Horse With Saddle On Back Trots Away Then Back Towards A Person In

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

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Horse With Saddle On Back Trots Away Then Back Towards A... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a horse with a saddle trotting across a fenced ranch enclosure in Montana. A person in period attire stands in the dirt field as the horse moves toward and away from them, with cows resting in the background. The grainy black-and-white footage, framed by film borders, evokes 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: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127547274

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 Montana ranch-life requests needing real 8mm home-movie footage of a saddled horse and handler in a fenced rural enclosure.
Period detail: The saddled horse, open dirt corral, rail fencing, work clothes, and black-and-white 8mm texture support a late-1930s rural ranch setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational quality of a home movie, watching a horse move around a handler without staged performance or formal coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a saddled horse, a standing person, dirt ground, rail fencing, resting cattle, open sky, and rounded film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage shows coarse 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, slight blur, and dark frame borders that give the scene clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a ranch-life insert, rural transition, animal cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about Western farm work.
Historical context: The scene documents everyday human-animal handling in a rural Montana enclosure, with cattle nearby and no visible machinery or commercial signage.
Research note: A person is visible, so likeness review may be needed in addition to copyright and any location or property considerations.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Montana 8mm ranch footage, saddled horse in corral, rural home movie, cattle fence background, and Depression-era farm life.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1939 Montana clips, then broader rural ranch, horse handling, cattle, and American West home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Montana home-movie frame of a saddled horse in a fenced ranch enclosure, with cattle resting beyond the rail fence. — A saddled horse stands in the dirt corral as cattle rest behind the fence.

A person in work clothes watches a saddled horse move through a fenced Montana ranch enclosure in 1939 footage. — The horse moves near a standing handler inside the fenced enclosure.

1939 Montana frame showing a person beside a saddled horse in a dirt ranch enclosure, with cattle resting along the fence line. — A person walks close to the saddled horse as cattle remain in the background.

A person faces a saddled horse in a fenced Montana ranch corral, seen in grainy 1939 8mm home-movie footage. — The handler stands in front of the saddled horse inside the corral.

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