South Dakota-1953: A Hare Races Across a Farm as a Cow Chases It

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

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A Hare Races Across a Farm as a Cow Chases It — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a rural farm scene in South Dakota. The footage shows a wide, open field with weathered wooden barns and fences under a cloudy sky. A small hare darts across the dry grass, pursued by a large cow that chases it through the yard. The grainy, slightly faded color and film scratches are characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. The sequence documents a fleeting moment of wildlife interacting with farm animals, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American countryside 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: 127721887

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 American farm-life requests needing brief animal behavior footage from a South Dakota 8mm home movie.
Period detail: The weathered wooden outbuildings, rough fencing, open range, and faded color film may show mid-century farmyard conditions in South Dakota.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes an unstaged farmyard moment as livestock and a small animal move through dry grass near barns and fences.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open prairie, weathered barns, wood fencing, dry grass, cattle, a small hare-like animal, cloudy sky, and distant low hills.
Film character: The clip has grainy 8mm texture, soft focus, uneven exposure, slight color fading, and handheld framing typical of original home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, rural transition, animal-behavior insert, or memory beat within a farm or countryside sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for everyday farm surroundings and animal activity in an open mid-century South Dakota rural setting.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, source ownership, and any property-related concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1953 South Dakota 8mm farm footage, vintage cattle yard home movie, rural prairie barns, and cow chasing hare footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1953 South Dakota farm scenes, then broader 1950s rural animal footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Underexposed 1953 South Dakota 8mm frame with a partial glimpse of open farmland and a weathered structure at the right edge. — A mostly dark opening frame with only part of the farmyard visible.

South Dakota farmyard on 8mm film, showing weathered wooden outbuildings, fencing, dry prairie grass, cloudy sky, and distant hills. — A wide view of weathered farm buildings and fencing in open country.

Cattle in a South Dakota farmyard stand near a weathered wooden barn and rough fencing, with dry grass in the foreground. — Cattle gather near a weathered barn and fence in dry grass.

A cow moves across a dry South Dakota farmyard near weathered wooden outbuildings and fencing in faded 8mm color. — A cow crosses the dry farmyard near weathered wooden buildings.

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