Nebraska-1958: Cows Grazing in Pasture

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationNebraska, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Nebraska

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Cows Grazing in Pasture — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene Nebraska countryside scene. Several cows graze peacefully in a lush green field under a pale gray sky. A line of leafy trees forms a natural backdrop, with a small white building visible in the distance. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and subtle film scratches, offering authentic archival footage of rural American life. The camera remains stationary, observing the calm pastoral moment.

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: 127611696

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: 1958 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: Nebraska, 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: 1950s rural Nebraska home-movie footage suited to requests for American pasture, cattle grazing, farm landscape, or quiet countryside cutaways.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft focus, muted palette, and stationary framing support a late-1950s home-movie reading, with no visible signage or date markers in frame.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the field from a fixed distance, giving the clip an unstaged family-film view of ordinary livestock and open rural space.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include grazing cows, a green pasture, a pale gray sky, leafy trees, a distant light building, fence line, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The scan carries visible 8mm grain, soft exposure, color fading, light scratches, and contact-sheet frame edges that reinforce its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing insert, pastoral transition, livestock cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1950s American sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects a small-scale rural landscape with cattle in open pasture, but the frames do not identify a specific farm, community, or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, though copyright, location context, and any distant property identification should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Nebraska 8mm cattle pasture, 1950s rural home movie cows grazing, and vintage American farm field footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Nebraska 1958 material, then broader 1950s rural America, cattle, pasture, and farm-life scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Nebraska 8mm frame showing cows in a green pasture, trees on the horizon, a pale sky, and a small distant building. — Cattle graze across a Nebraska pasture beneath a pale sky, with trees and a distant building behind them.

1958 Nebraska home-movie frame with cattle grazing in open grass, backed by trees, fencing, and a small light-colored building. — Cows remain scattered across the pasture as the stationary camera holds on the rural scene.

1958 Nebraska 8mm frame of cattle grazing in a wide green field, with trees and a distant rural structure behind them. — The cattle continue grazing in the field, framed by trees and the soft texture of 8mm film.

1958 Nebraska home-movie frame showing cows grazing in a broad pasture with a tree line, fence, and distant building. — A final held view shows cattle in the pasture with trees, fencing, and a small building in the background.

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