Montana-1939: Cows Being Herded Through a Wooden Pen on a Rural Farm

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

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Cows Being Herded Through a Wooden Pen on a Rural Farm — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this grainy black-and-white home movie captures a somber rural scene in Montana. Cows are herded through a narrow wooden pen, their movements constrained as they navigate the farm's enclosure. The footage shows a long line of cattle being guided along a dirt path bordered by wooden fencing, with bare trees in the background suggesting late autumn or early spring. The handheld camera follows the procession, capturing the animals' reluctant progress under overcast skies. The high grain and soft focus lend a nostalgic, historical quality to this archival farm footage.

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: 127547369

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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Montana, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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 agriculture requests needing real home-movie cattle handling, farm enclosure, or ranch-life cutaway footage from Montana.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1930s ranch practice through rough wooden fencing, open dirt pens, bare trees, and a small herd moving through a narrow chute.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from outside the pen with an informal, handheld home-movie perspective rather than a staged agricultural demonstration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include cattle, wooden rails, a dirt lane, open field, bare trees, fencing shadows, and soft distant hills.
Film character: The 8mm black-and-white scan has heavy grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight handheld drift that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for rural labor, livestock movement, Depression-era farm life, or food-system context.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for cattle being moved through a confined farm structure without identifying the ranch, owners, or a specific event.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, animal-treatment sensitivity, and property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Montana cattle home movie, 8mm rural farm footage, vintage cows in wooden pen, and black-and-white ranch livestock scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Montana 1939 farm scenes, then broader 1930s livestock, ranching, and rural enclosure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Montana home-movie frame showing cattle clustered near wooden fencing under bare trees. — Cattle stand in a fenced rural pen with bare trees beyond the enclosure.

Cattle appear to move through a narrow wooden chute on a Montana farm in 1939. — A row of cattle follows a fenced dirt lane across the farm enclosure.

Grainy 8mm frame of cattle pressed near wooden rails inside a rural Montana pen. — Cattle bunch against the wooden fence as the camera looks into the enclosure.

Close, soft-focus home-movie view of cattle behind a wooden rail fence in rural Montana. — Cattle are seen close behind horizontal rails near the end of the brief farm shot.

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