Montana-1939: Farmers Throwing Hay Off A Hay Wagon That Is Being Pulled By Horses

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

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Farmers Throwing Hay Off A Hay Wagon That Is Being... — Clip Details

MONTANA-1939: Farmers in cowboy hats work a hay field, loading golden hay onto a horse-drawn wagon. Two men stand on the wagon, tossing hay bales while a team of dark horses pulls the cart across the dry, sunlit prairie. A man leads a horse nearby, and cattle graze in the distance under a pale sky. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie captures authentic rural labor with warm, faded colors and natural film grain, evoking a nostalgic 1930s American farm life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127547600

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.

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: 1930s Montana farm labor footage for documentary or museum edits needing authentic horse-drawn haying scenes from rural American home movies.
Period detail: The cowboy hats, horse team, wooden hay wagon, open prairie field, and manual hay handling support the 1939 Montana rural setting in the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value as workers continue haying while the camera observes from a modest distance across the field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include farmers in hats, a horse-drawn hay wagon, loose hay, open dry field, distant low horizon, dark horses, and warm sunlit prairie color.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, warm faded color, visible grain, gate edges, and uneven exposure that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural labor insert, agricultural transition, historical cutaway, or quiet memory beat for prewar American farm life.
Historical context: The footage visually documents hand labor and horse power in a hay field without establishing farm ownership, identities, or a specific local landmark.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, privacy, and location permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s Montana haying, horse-drawn hay wagon, farmers throwing hay, cowboy hats farm work, and 8mm rural home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Montana rural scenes, then broader horse-drawn farming or hay harvest footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Montana home-movie footage, two farmers in hats work atop a hay wagon in a dry open field. — Farmers work from the top of a hay wagon in the field.

A horse-drawn hay wagon moves through a Montana field, with two workers standing on or beside the hay load. — Dark horses pull the loaded hay wagon across the field.

A Montana farm worker in a hat holds a long-handled tool near the hay wagon during field work. — A worker handles a long tool near the wagon during haying.

A farm worker crouches beside loose hay and the wagon wheels during the Montana haying scene. — A worker crouches near hay beside the loaded wagon.

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