Montana-1939: Cowboy On Horseback Herding Cows Across Open Field

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

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Cowboy On Horseback Herding Cows Across Open Field — Clip Details

A man on horseback herds a mixed herd of white, black, and brown cows across a vast, sun-drenched Montana field in this 1939 8mm home movie. Shot on vintage 8mm film, the footage captures the rugged beauty of the American West with natural, unfiltered motion. The cowboy, wearing a dark hat and light-colored shirt, guides his horse through the open range as the cattle move across the dry grassland under a pale sky. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and subtle camera shake evoke a strong sense of nostalgia and authentic rural life from the late 1930s.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127547693

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 documentary or educational requests needing late-1930s Montana ranching, horseback cattle herding, or rural Western home-movie footage.
Period detail: The clothing, open range setting, mounted rider, and 8mm color home-movie texture support a late-1930s ranch-life reading without showing identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged family-film viewpoint, observing a rider and cattle moving through pasture rather than presenting a planned commercial scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a mounted cowboy, mixed cattle, dry grassland, low hills, pale sky, and handheld 8mm framing with contact-sheet borders.
Film character: The footage shows soft focus, warm faded color, visible grain, uneven exposure, and slight handheld movement typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, rural-life cutaway, Western transition, or memory beat in a sequence about ranching or family history.
Historical context: The scene visually documents cattle handling on open Montana grassland, showing everyday ranch labor and animal movement without making broader historical claims.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness and contextual use should be reviewed separately from copyright or stock licensing status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1930s Montana ranch footage, 8mm cowboy herding cattle, vintage home movie cows and horses, and rural American West pasture scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel ranch scenes, then other 1939 Montana clips, then broader vintage cattle, horseback riding, and rural Western home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Montana footage, a cowboy on horseback watches cattle spread across open grassland with low hills beyond. — A mounted cowboy stands near cattle moving across open Montana range.

A rider on a dark horse passes cattle in a sunlit Montana field, with soft 8mm color and distant hills. — The rider guides his horse alongside the herd in dry grassland.

Brown and white cattle move through a Montana field as a horseback rider follows behind in 1939 home-movie footage. — Cattle pass close to the camera while the mounted rider remains behind the herd.

A cowboy on horseback rides through a mixed herd on open Montana grassland, with cattle crossing in front of the camera. — The rider moves through the herd as cattle cross the frame.

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