Montana-1939: View Of People Picking Cotton And Man Riding Horse In Reverse On

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

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View Of People Picking Cotton And Man Riding Horse In... — Clip Details

MONTANA-1939: A grainy black-and-white 8mm home movie captures rural farm life in the 1930s. Farmers work in a cotton field under a clear sky, with one man riding a horse across the landscape. The footage shows people picking cotton by hand, with wooden fences and bare trees lining the fields. Shot on 8mm film, the clip features natural lighting, vintage film grain, and a nostalgic, documentary-style perspective of agricultural labor in the American West.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127547435

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s 8mm rural farm footage suited for documentary inserts about hand labor, ranch life, or agricultural memory in the American West.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm frames may show prewar rural dress, rough fencing, open fields, livestock, and horse travel consistent with the supplied 1939 Montana metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes ordinary outdoor farm activity from a distance, with people working or moving through the field rather than posing for the lens.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a fenced field, cattle or livestock, a man on horseback, distant workers, bare trees, open pasture, and uneven rural ground.
Film character: The clip has heavy 8mm grain, soft focus, dark frame edges, and handheld exposure shifts that give it a direct physical-film home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, transition, or memory beat for rural labor, livestock handling, or 1930s Western farm atmosphere.
Historical context: The footage visually places people and animals in a rural working landscape, but it should not be used to prove crop type or exact activity without further research.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so copyright, likeness, location, and property considerations should be reviewed separately before reuse.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s 8mm farm life, Montana home movie, rural horseback footage, hand field work, livestock fence, and vintage agriculture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1939 Montana material, then with broader rural agriculture or horseback home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Grainy 1939 Montana 8mm frame showing a fenced rural field, livestock, and a distant person in open farmland. — Livestock and a distant person stand along a rough fenced field.

Grainy 1939 Montana 8mm frame with a man riding a horse across open rural ground beside fencing. — A rider on horseback crosses the field near a fence.

Grainy 1939 Montana 8mm frame showing a person working or moving near rough fencing in an open field. — A person stands or works near a rough fence in the field.

Grainy 1939 Montana 8mm frame of open farmland with rough fence rails, bare trees, and a distant low horizon. — The camera holds on open farmland and rough fencing.

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