South Dakota-1953: Historic Stockyard And Horseback Riding By Cowboy

$149 · Editorial onlyDirect license: editorial use only. $149 flat from Stockfilm for documentary, news and educational use. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or broadcast promotion.

Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationSouth Dakota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 South Dakota

$149 · Editorial onlyDirect license: editorial use only

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Before you add to cart: Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion. Checkout will only offer editorial, educational, internal and social/web scopes.

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Historic Stockyard And Horseback Riding By Cowboy — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a man in a cap and work shirt riding a black-and-white pinto horse across an open prairie in South Dakota. The scene transitions to a historic stockyard with wooden pens and a building labeled 'STOCKMANS SALES EVERY FRI.' A woman in a dark coat stands near the pens, adding to the authentic rural atmosphere. The footage features natural film grain, soft color tones, and a nostalgic 1950s Americana feel, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127721439

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: Yes
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 (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: South Dakota, 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.

Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s rural South Dakota requests needing authentic home-movie views of horseback riding, livestock pens, and stockyard exteriors.
Period detail: The 1953 8mm footage shows period work clothing, wooden stock pens, utility poles, and a sales-building sign reading "STOCKMANS SALES EVERY FRI."
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor or family-film quality, moving from a mounted man on open prairie to casual views around livestock pens.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pinto horse, a man in a cap, open prairie, wooden stockyard pens, a livestock chute, a sales building, utility poles, and a woman near a gate.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm color, visible grain, gate edges, mild exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserve the home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural Americana insert, a livestock-market cutaway, or a brief transition between prairie and agricultural commerce scenes.
Historical context: The footage documents everyday ranching and livestock-sale environments as seen by a home-movie camera, without enough evidence to identify the exact stockyard.
Research note: People and a readable business sign are visible, so likeness, trademark or signage, and location identification should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1953 South Dakota 8mm stockyard footage, cowboy horseback riding home movies, rural livestock pens, and midcentury farm life.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1953 South Dakota material, then broader 1950s ranching, stockyard, and farm-life scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 South Dakota home-movie frame of a man in work clothes riding a black-and-white pinto horse across open prairie. — A mounted man rides a pinto horse across open prairie.

1953 South Dakota stockyard view with wooden pens, a livestock chute, utility poles, and a building marked "STOCKMANS SALES EVERY FRI." — Wooden stock pens lead toward a livestock sales building.

Home-movie frame of wooden livestock pens in South Dakota, with an animal in a chute and a readable stockmen's sales sign beyond. — A stockyard chute and pens are filmed from inside the yard.

1953 South Dakota home-movie frame showing a woman near wooden stockyard pens, with strong shadows and farmyard fencing around her. — A woman stands near the stockyard fencing and gate area.

Visually Similar Clips