South Dakota-1953: Cows Grazing In A Field With Hay Bales

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

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Cows Grazing In A Field With Hay Bales — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a herd of cows grazing in a dry, golden field in South Dakota. The footage, viewed through a dark frame, shows a weathered wooden fence post in the foreground and a line of hay bales in the distance under a pale sky. The film exhibits natural grain, scratches, and slight motion blur, conveying a nostalgic, authentic slice of mid-century rural life.

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: 127721486

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: 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.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s rural life requests needing South Dakota farm or grazing livestock footage for documentary inserts, educational context, or pastoral cutaways.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century agricultural landscape details, including open pasture, hay bales or cattle shapes along the horizon, a fence post, and 8mm color home-movie framing.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged roadside or field-edge viewpoint, with the camera observing cattle across open land rather than arranging a formal farm scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include grazing cattle, dry golden field grass, distant low hills, pale sky, a foreground fence post, dark film-frame edges, and possible hay bales.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm home-movie texture through soft focus, warm color fading, visible grain, scratches, uneven exposure, and slight handheld motion blur.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural establishing insert, livestock cutaway, transition between farm sequences, or quiet memory beat in a 1950s regional story.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for open-range or pasture-based cattle imagery in South Dakota without identifying a specific ranch, owner, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1953 South Dakota 8mm cattle footage, vintage farm field home movie, cows grazing in dry pasture, and mid-century rural landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other South Dakota 1953 footage, then 1950s farm, cattle, pasture, hay field, and rural home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 South Dakota 8mm frame showing cattle in a dry golden field, with a weathered fence post near the foreground and pale sky beyond. — Cattle grazing across a dry field, seen through dark 8mm film-frame borders.

1953 South Dakota home-movie frame with a line of cattle grazing across a dry field, partially framed by dark film borders. — A small herd appears across the field beneath a pale open sky.

1953 South Dakota 8mm frame showing cattle spread across a dry pasture, with low landforms in the distance and visible film wear. — Cattle are scattered along the horizon line of a dry rural field.

1953 South Dakota 8mm frame showing open dry pasture, a foreground fence post, low distant hills, and faint cattle forms near the horizon. — Open pasture and a foreground fence post carry the rural field view as the herd recedes.

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