Montana-1939: Man Riding Horse Across Open Field

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

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Man Riding Horse Across Open Field — Clip Details

MONTANA-1939: A grainy black-and-white 8mm home movie captures a lone rider on horseback traversing a vast, open field. The rider moves steadily across the landscape, with a distant treeline under a bright sky. In some frames, a group of people and a horse-drawn wagon appear near a muddy patch, suggesting a camp or rural settlement. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—high grain, soft focus, and dark vignetting—evoking a nostalgic, archival feel from the late 1930s American West.

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: 127547460

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 footage for productions needing a rural Western horseback travel insert or frontier-memory cutaway.
Period detail: The open field, horse rider, distant treeline, and possible wagon group may show rural travel or camp activity in late-1930s Montana.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie feel, observing a rider crossing the field while nearby figures gather around a horse-drawn wagon.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lone rider, open pasture, distant treeline, muddy ground, small human figures, a horse-drawn wagon, bright sky, and heavy frame vignetting.
Film character: The 8mm black-and-white scan shows coarse grain, soft focus, handheld framing, exposure variation, and dark rounded edges as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, rural transition, horseback travel cutaway, or memory beat within a Western, family-history, or Montana sequence.
Historical context: The scene suggests everyday rural movement and outdoor gathering, but the frames do not identify the people, ranch, settlement, or specific event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness and contextual use should be reviewed separately from any copyright or footage license questions.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s Montana 8mm horse rider, rural home movie horseback field, and black-and-white Western camp wagon footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Montana 1939 material, then broader rural horseback, wagon, camp, or open-field themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Montana 8mm frame showing distant people gathered near horses or a wagon in an open field with a treeline beyond. — Distant figures gather near horses or a wagon in an open rural field.

1939 Montana 8mm frame with a distant horseback rider moving across an open field, with treeline and heavy film-edge vignetting. — A distant rider moves across the field beneath a bright sky.

1939 Montana 8mm frame showing a soft, distant rider on horseback crossing a broad field with low hills or treeline in the background. — The rider remains distant as the camera holds on the open field.

1939 Montana 8mm frame with a lone rider and horse at right, open ground in front, and a distant rural horizon behind. — A lone horseback rider appears at the edge of the frame in the open landscape.

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