Klamath California-1937: Flock Of Birds Taking Flight From Large Field With Hay Bales

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Year1937
Decade1930s
LocationKlamath, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1937 California

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Flock Of Birds Taking Flight From Large Field With Hay Bales — Clip Details

KLAMATH CALIFORNIA-1937: A flock of birds takes flight from a vast, open field under an overcast sky, captured on 8mm film. The grainy, monochrome footage shows scattered hay bales and distant trees along the horizon, viewed through a window frame. The camera remains steady, observing the natural movement of the birds as they rise into the air. This authentic home movie offers a nostalgic glimpse of rural life and wildlife in the 1930s, with visible film scratches and wear adding to its historic charm.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124858808

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: 1937 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Klamath, California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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: 1930s rural California wildlife footage suited for documentary cutaways, environmental history sequences, or archival transitions around field life and bird movement.
Period detail: The view may show a 1930s rural field with scattered hay bales, a low horizon, and an overcast sky, with no modern structures or vehicles visible in these frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie feel, as if filmed from a sheltered position or through a frame while watching birds lift from an open field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an open field, distant hay bales, a low horizon, an overcast sky, small birds in flight, dark window-like framing, and aged film marks.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, monochrome exposure, visible grain, scratches, dust, and gate framing that give the brief scene a physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural insert, wildlife cutaway, quiet transition, or memory beat between broader 1930s landscape or farm-life material.
Historical context: The footage places wildlife activity within a sparsely developed rural landscape, offering visual context for open fields near Klamath, California in the stated 1937 metadata.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status, location identification, and any broader reel context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1930s 8mm rural California field, birds taking flight, hay bales in open landscape, Klamath home movie, and vintage wildlife footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1937 Klamath material, then rural California landscapes, birds, hay fields, and Depression-era home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 Klamath, California 8mm frame showing a muted open field, distant hay bales, and dark vertical framing at the edges. — A distant rural field and hay bales appear beneath a gray sky, viewed through dark framing.

1937 Klamath, California frame with small birds rising over a broad rural field and hay bales near the horizon. — Small birds lift across the distant field while hay bales sit along the horizon.

1937 Klamath, California 8mm frame showing a soft, distant field with a hay bale near the edge and visible film aging. — A hay bale sits near the edge of the field as the soft landscape recedes into haze.

1937 Klamath, California frame with faint bird movement, distant hay bales, and dark film or window framing around the rural view. — Faint birds and hay bales remain visible across the open field at the end of the clip.

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