South Dakota-1953: Woman On A White And Brown Horse Riding In A Wheat Field

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationSouth Dakota, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 South Dakota

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Woman On A White And Brown Horse Riding In A Wheat Field — Clip Details

A woman rides a pinto horse across a vast wheat field in South Dakota, 1953. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures her from behind as she moves through the golden landscape under a pale sky. She wears a light-colored top and dark pants, her hair tied back. The horse, with white and dark patches, trots steadily across the open terrain. The film shows natural grain, slight blurriness, and edge vignetting typical of vintage home movies. A wire fence appears in the foreground in later frames, adding depth to the rural scene. This authentic 1950s home movie offers a nostalgic glimpse of leisure and countryside life.

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: 127720826

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: 1953 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: South Dakota, 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: Useful for 1950s rural Americana requests needing home-movie footage of horseback riding, open South Dakota farmland, or leisure in a plains landscape.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, clothing, saddle, open field, and metadata-supported 1953 South Dakota setting place the scene within midcentury rural home-movie documentation.
Home-movie behavior: The rider is filmed from behind at a casual distance, giving the clip an unstaged family-record view of someone riding across open country.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman rider, a pinto horse, dry field grasses, low horizon, pale sky, fence posts, wire fencing, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, dust specks, slight exposure variation, handheld framing, and edge vignetting consistent with original 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural transition, memory beat, horseback-riding cutaway, or quiet insert for midcentury South Dakota countryside life.
Historical context: The clip shows recreational horseback riding in an open agricultural landscape, suggesting everyday rural leisure without identifying the rider or property.
Research note: A person is visible but not facially identifiable in these frames; copyright, likeness, and any location or property concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1953 South Dakota 8mm home movie, woman riding pinto horse, rural plains horseback footage, wheat field riding, and vintage farm landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1953 South Dakota rural footage, then broader 1950s horseback, farm, and plains landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1953 South Dakota home-movie footage, a woman rides a pinto horse away from the camera across an open field under a pale sky. — A rider on a pinto horse moves across open South Dakota farmland.

The horse and rider travel steadily across the open field.

The rider appears smaller in the frame as the horse moves beyond taller grass and fence posts in the rural South Dakota landscape. — The rider recedes into the field beyond the fence line.

A distant view shows the woman and horse moving away behind tall grass, framed by 8mm film borders and a wide South Dakota horizon. — The horse and rider become a small figure against the broad field.

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