United States-1961: Young Man on a Saddled Brown Horse Riding Off Across a Green Pasture

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit

Serves requests for early-1960s rural American farm life and casual horseback riding, useful as a cutaway in documentary, education or nostalgic commercial work.

Period detail

The white T-shirt, rolled blue jeans, short haircut and Western saddle may show early-1960s rural dress and tack, consistent with the section's dated cars and McCormick equipment.

Home-movie behavior

A family member films a young man casually turning his horse and riding off across the home pasture, an unstaged moment of ordinary farm leisure.

What appears in frame

A young man in a white T-shirt and jeans, a brown horse with a Western saddle and green pad, a pale two-rut track, a wide green pasture, a dark tree line and a clear blue sky.

Film character

Saturated regular 8mm colour with deep blue sky, visible grain, dust specks and a faint vertical scratch line give the shot an authentic projected-film texture.

Edit role

Works as a cutaway, an establishing beat for a farm sequence, or a closing transition as the rider recedes toward the trees.

Historical context

Shot on the same farm and visit that shows McCormick implements and house trailers, it reflects recreational riding alongside working agriculture in rural America around the early 1960s.

Research note

The film's copyright and the rider's likeness are separate matters: the rider is unidentified and seen mostly from behind, and the pasture is likely private farm property.

Research search match

1960s home movie horseback rider, regular 8mm farm footage, vintage rider on brown horse in pasture, early 1960s rural America colour film.

Archive pairing path

Pair first with this reel's riders galloping toward camera, McCormick implements and tractors, elderly couple and calf in the corral, then other early-1960s US farm reels, then horseback riding footage.