Montana-1939: Rancher Herding Cattle Across Vast Prairie

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

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Rancher Herding Cattle Across Vast Prairie — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a Montana rancher on horseback herding a large herd of brown and white cattle across a vast, open prairie. The wide, flat landscape stretches to distant hills under an overcast sky, with the cows grazing and moving across the dry grassland. The footage shows natural, unscripted ranch life, with the rider guiding the animals through the expansive countryside. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and minor scratches, preserving the authentic look of a mid-20th century home movie.

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: 127547644

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: Useful for 1930s rural America requests needing Montana ranch work, cattle herding, prairie landscape, or unscripted agricultural life for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The 8mm color home-movie look, horseback rider, open range, and metadata-supported 1939 Montana setting may show late-1930s ranch practice without identifiable modern intrusions.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distance as a rider guides cattle across open grassland, preserving an unstaged family-film view of ranch labor and animal movement.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include brown and white cattle, a mounted rancher, dry prairie grass, low shrubs, distant hills, open sky, and soft handheld framing.
Film character: The clip has warm faded color, visible grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and light scratches consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief cutaway, rural establishing insert, livestock transition, or memory beat within sequences about ranching, land use, or Western home movies.
Historical context: The footage visually places cattle work within a broad Montana prairie setting, showing ranch labor and grazing animals without making claims about a named ranch or event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so copyright, likeness, and any location or property questions should be reviewed separately before publication or commercial use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1939 Montana ranch home movie, 8mm cattle herding prairie, vintage Western livestock footage, and rancher on horseback with cows.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1939 Montana footage, then rural ranching, cattle, horseback work, prairie landscape, and Depression-era home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Montana 8mm frame showing brown and white cattle spread across prairie grass with a rancher on horseback near distant hills. — Cattle graze across a wide prairie as a mounted rancher stands in the herd.

1939 Montana ranch scene with cattle crossing dry prairie while a distant rider on horseback guides the herd. — A brown and white cow passes in the foreground as the herd spreads over the prairie.

1939 Montana home-movie frame showing cattle on prairie grass with distant horseback riders and low hills beyond. — The herd gathers on open range while riders remain visible near the center distance.

1939 Montana 8mm frame with brown and white cattle grazing on scrubby prairie below distant hills. — Cattle graze in scattered groups on dry prairie beneath a low ridge line.

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