South Dakota-1953: Cow Licking Salt and Man Standing by Yellow Tractor

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

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Cow Licking Salt and Man Standing by Yellow Tractor — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a close-up of a white cow licking a salt block, its textured fur and snout in sharp focus. The scene transitions to a rural farm setting where a man in a light-colored shirt and cap stands beside a yellow tractor, while a woman in a pink jacket and white skirt holds a tool near the vehicle. The footage features natural lighting, authentic film grain, and the warm, slightly faded colors characteristic of mid-century Super 8 home movies. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into 1950s farm life in South Dakota.

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: 127721970

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: 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing 1950s South Dakota farm-life footage, especially documentary inserts about livestock care, rural machinery, or family-shot agricultural routines.
Period detail: The yellow tractor, simple farm clothing, wood fencing, and color 8mm look support a mid-century rural setting consistent with the 1953 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes ordinary farm activity at close range, moving from a cow at a salt block to adults gathered around a tractor without staged presentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white cow, salt block, paved or hard ground, yellow tractor, wood fence, adult man, adult woman, and farmyard shadows.
Film character: The footage has soft color, visible grain, slight fading, uneven exposure, and handheld framing typical of scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural-life cutaway, livestock insert, machinery transition, or brief memory beat within a farm or family-history sequence.
Historical context: The clip shows small-scale farm work and livestock handling as captured from a family or visitor perspective, without enough visual evidence to identify the farm or people.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no readable brands are visible, and copyright, location, and personal rights should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1953 South Dakota 8mm farm footage, cow licking salt block, yellow tractor home movie, and mid-century rural agriculture scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1953 South Dakota material, then broader 1950s farm, livestock, and tractor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 South Dakota 8mm frame showing a white cow in close-up with its snout near a salt block on a farm surface. — A white cow lowers its snout toward a salt block in a close farmyard view.

Close 8mm view of a white cow licking or nosing a salt block, consistent with the 1953 South Dakota farm metadata. — The cow remains close to the salt block, filling most of the frame.

1953 South Dakota farm scene with an adult woman beside a yellow tractor and an adult man standing near a wood fence. — Two adults stand around a yellow tractor in a rural farmyard setting.

An adult man and woman are seen with a yellow tractor by a wood fence in 1953 South Dakota farm footage. — A man stands by the tractor while a woman faces him near the front wheel.

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