Montana-1939: Cattle Herd with Cowboy on Horseback

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationMontana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Montana

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Cattle Herd with Cowboy on Horseback — Clip Details

MONTANA-1939: A herd of brown and white cows grazes across a vast, dry grassland under an overcast sky. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the rural landscape with natural film grain and slight color fading typical of the era. In the distance, a lone rider on horseback moves through the field, herding the cattle. The wide, open plains stretch to the horizon, emphasizing the scale of the ranching environment. This authentic home movie offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century American agriculture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127547632

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 (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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s Montana ranching footage suited for documentary or educational requests needing cattle grazing, open plains, and a rider working at distance.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s rural ranch life through open range, grazing cattle, a distant mounted rider, and soft 8mm color home-movie rendering.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a simple home-movie vantage point, holding on cattle and the distant rider rather than staging action for the lens.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include brown and white cattle, dry grassland, a distant horseback rider, low hills, pale sky, film gate edges, and vertical contact-sheet bars.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, muted color, slight fading, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that give the scene physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural insert, ranching cutaway, Western landscape transition, or memory beat within a broader agriculture sequence.
Historical context: The scene places cattle grazing and mounted herding within a broad Montana plains setting, offering visual context for rural livestock work without identifying a specific ranch.
Research note: People appear only as distant figures, but likeness, copyright, location, and any property questions should still be reviewed before publication or commercial use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s Montana cattle grazing, 8mm ranch home movie, cowboy on horseback with herd, and rural American plains footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Montana 1939 material, then broader 1930s ranching, cattle, and rural landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Montana 8mm frame showing cattle spread across dry grassland under a pale sky, with low hills in the distance. — Cattle graze across open Montana grassland in a wide home-movie view.

Wide 1939 Montana ranch scene with grazing cattle and a small distant horseback rider on the open plains. — A mounted rider is visible near cattle scattered across the open field.

Soft 8mm view of a Montana cattle herd with a distant rider on horseback moving through the ranch landscape. — Cattle and a far-off mounted rider occupy the middle distance of the plains.

1939 Montana ranch footage frame with cattle in the foreground and a distant mounted rider among the herd on open grassland. — The herd continues grazing while a rider remains visible in the distance.

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