Montana-1939: Cowboy Riding Brown Horse Herding Cattle on Ranch

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

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Cowboy Riding Brown Horse Herding Cattle on Ranch — Clip Details

MONTANA-1939: A cowboy in a dark hat and tan jacket rides a brown horse with a white blaze across a vast, open field, herding a scattered group of cattle. The 8mm film captures the rugged landscape under a pale sky, with the horse moving at a steady pace through the dry grass. The footage shows natural motion and slight camera shake, characteristic of a home movie from the era, with visible film grain and soft color saturation. The scene evokes a sense of rural life and the daily work of a rancher in the American West.

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: 127547716

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s archival requests needing Western ranch work, cattle herding, horseback labor, or rural Montana atmosphere for documentary, museum, education, or editorial production.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s ranch clothing, including brimmed hats, a tan work jacket, riding tack, open range, and cattle in a broad rural landscape.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged home-movie view of riders moving among cattle, with informal framing that follows the horse and ranch work rather than posing the scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a cowboy on a brown horse with a white blaze, scattered cattle, dry grass, open fields, low distant hills, pale sky, and handheld 8mm framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft color, visible grain, uneven exposure, gate edges, and slight handheld shake that give the ranch scene authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, rural transition, Western ranch cutaway, or memory beat within sequences about cattle work, home movies, or American farm life.
Historical context: The footage visually documents horseback cattle handling in an open rural setting, showing manual ranch labor and landscape scale without supporting claims about a named ranch or event.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, but copyright, location, and property rights should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Searches it may match include 1939 Montana ranch home movie, 8mm cowboy herding cattle, Western horse rider cattle field, and 1930s rural American ranch footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Montana or 1939 rural footage, then with broader ranching, cattle, horseback labor, and Western landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Montana 8mm frame of a rider on a brown horse facing the camera while cattle graze across open ranch land. — A mounted rider faces the camera as cattle spread across the open field.

1939 Montana ranch footage shows a rider in a tan jacket and dark hat moving a brown horse past scattered cattle. — A rider in a tan jacket passes through the herd on a brown horse.

A Montana ranch rider on horseback appears at the left edge while cattle remain spread across the open 1939 landscape. — The horse and rider move through the edge of frame as cattle graze beyond.

1939 Montana home-movie frame of a cowboy on a brown horse with a white blaze, surrounded by cattle in a broad ranch field. — A cowboy rides among cattle with open ranch land and low hills behind him.

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