Montana-1939: Cows Graze in Field near Water

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

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Cows Graze in Field near Water — Clip Details

MONTANA-1939: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a herd of brown and white cows grazing in a vast, dry field under an overcast sky. The camera pans slowly across the landscape, showing the cattle scattered near a small, icy water puddle. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and natural movement, evoking a nostalgic, rural American scene from the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127547621

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Montana, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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 8mm cattle-grazing footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing rural ranchland atmosphere without visible people.
Period detail: The open range, Hereford-type cattle, muted color, and handheld 8mm handling may show late-1930s rural ranch footage consistent with the supplied Montana 1939 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera pans from a casual home-movie distance, observing cattle in the field rather than staging a formal livestock or ranching scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include brown and white cattle, dry grass, low brush, distant bare trees, a pale overcast sky, rolling horizon, and dark film gate edges.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, warm color fading, visible grain, dust specks, and handheld panning that read as original small-gauge home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing insert, livestock cutaway, transition between ranch scenes, or quiet memory beat about open land and cattle.
Historical context: The footage documents cattle grazing on a broad Montana landscape, offering visual context for rural animal husbandry without making claims about a specific ranch or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable property identifiers are visible, but copyright and any location or herd ownership questions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Montana 8mm cattle footage, vintage home movie cows grazing, rural ranch field pan, and 1930s American livestock landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Montana 1939 rural material, then broader 1930s cattle, ranching, field, and home-movie landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Montana 1939 home-movie frame showing brown and white cattle grazing across a dry open field with brush and distant trees. — A wide view of cattle spread across open ranchland.

Montana 1939 frame with cattle clustered across brushy pasture, seen through soft 8mm focus and dark frame edges. — The pan continues across cattle in a broad pasture.

Montana 1939 home-movie view of cattle grazing closer to the camera, with more herd animals and open range behind them. — Cattle graze in the foreground as the herd extends into the distance.

Montana 1939 frame showing a larger group of brown and white cattle grazing across dry grass under a pale sky. — A denser section of the herd grazes across the field.

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