Montana-1939: Farmer Shoveling Hay Surrounded By Cows At A Ranch

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

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Farmer Shoveling Hay Surrounded By Cows At A Ranch — Clip Details

MONTANA-1939: A farmer in dark clothing shovels hay in a rural field, surrounded by a herd of black and white cows. The grainy 8mm footage captures a quiet moment on a working ranch, with bare trees lining the horizon under an overcast sky. The camera remains steady, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American farm life.

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: 127547424

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 (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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s rural America projects needing a brief ranch-life insert with livestock, hay handling, and a working farmer in Montana.
Period detail: The 8mm black-and-white look, open ranch setting, hay piles, bare trees, and dairy cattle may show late-1930s agricultural life as supported by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from a steady home-movie distance as the farmer works among cows, preserving an unstaged labor moment rather than a posed scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a farmer in dark clothing, rows of black-and-white cows, loose hay or fodder, a field edge, bare trees, and an overcast sky.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, mild gate shadowing, uneven exposure, and contact-print texture that read as original home-movie film characteristics.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural labor cutaway, livestock insert, transition into ranch material, or quiet memory beat about farm routines.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for small-scale ranch work and cattle feeding without making claims about the ranch, family, or agricultural methods beyond what is visible.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, location, and property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Research matches include 1939 Montana ranch footage, 1930s farmer feeding cows, 8mm cattle and hay scene, and rural American home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other Montana 1939 ranch scenes, then with broader 1930s farming, cattle, and haymaking material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Montana ranch footage showing a farmer near hay while black-and-white cows cluster in an open field. — A farmer stands among cattle beside a line of hay in the field.

A distant farmer works near hay on a Montana ranch in 1939, with cows gathered across the field. — Cattle crowd around hay as the farmer remains near the center of the field.

In grainy 8mm footage from 1939 Montana, a farmer handles hay amid a herd of cows in a rural field. — The farmer works the hay as cows gather closely around the feeding area.

A Montana ranch scene from 1939 shows a farmer beside hay, surrounded by cattle in a winter-bare field. — The farmer stands near the hay while cattle fill the surrounding field.

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