Montana-1939: Family Walking On Their Farm Surrounded By Cows In The Pastures

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

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Family Walking On Their Farm Surrounded By Cows In The... — Clip Details

MONTANA-1939: A family walks across their rural farm, surrounded by cows in a fenced pasture. Shot on 8mm film, the grainy black-and-white footage captures a quiet moment of daily life. The family moves through the field, with cows grazing nearby and bare trees lining the horizon. The handheld camera follows their movement, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century American farm life. This authentic home movie footage evokes a sense of simplicity and connection to the land.

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: 127547450

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 Montana home-movie farm footage for productions needing rural family life, pasture activity, and cattle cutaways from an 8mm source.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm frames may show late-1930s rural clothing, open pasture fencing, bare trees, and horned cattle in a Montana farm setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera records an unstaged family walk through a pasture as cattle move nearby, giving the clip a private home-movie view of daily farm life.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adults in dark coats, a fenced pasture, horned cattle, bare trees, muddy ground, low hills, and soft handheld framing.
Film character: The footage has coarse 8mm grain, low contrast, gate edges, slight blur, and handheld movement that mark it as scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural-life insert, livestock cutaway, transitional memory beat, or visual bridge in a sequence about family farms.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for household presence around cattle and fenced pasture land without documenting a named farm, event, or specific community.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still apply; no brands are visible, and copyright clearance is separate from any property or personal rights review.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1939 Montana farm home movie, 8mm cattle pasture footage, rural family walking with cows, and 1930s American farm life.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Montana 1939 farm material, then broader 1930s rural family and cattle footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1939 Montana farm scene, distant family members walk through a fenced pasture with bare trees and open ground behind them. — Family members cross the pasture near a fence line and bare trees.

Horned cattle occupy the foreground of a Montana farm pasture, with fence posts, bare brush, and low hills visible behind them. — Cattle stand close to the camera in the fenced pasture.

A close 8mm view shows cattle in a muddy Montana pasture, framed by fence posts, brush, and a low hillside beyond. — The camera moves closer to the cattle in the pasture.

A person in light clothing stands beside horned cattle in a fenced Montana pasture, with rough ground and low hills behind. — A person stands near the cattle as the pasture fence recedes behind them.

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