Auburn California-1939: Old Couple Sitting with Cat and Eggs

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationAuburn, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 California

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Old Couple Sitting with Cat and Eggs — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1939 captures an elderly couple sitting together in Auburn, California. The woman, wearing a pink striped blouse, gently holds a small cat in her lap, while the man in a straw hat and button-up shirt cradles a bowl of eggs. Shot on 8mm film, the footage displays warm, slightly faded colors and natural film grain, evoking a quiet, nostalgic moment of domestic life in the late 1930s.

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, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127013035

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 1166 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: may
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1939 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Auburn, California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 8mm home-movie footage suited to requests for domestic rural life, elderly couples, pets, food gathering, or quiet family-memory inserts.
Period detail: The straw hat, simple button-up clothing, striped blouse, metal bowl, and faded color stock support a late-1930s home-movie impression.
Home-movie behavior: The couple sit close together for the camera while the woman handles a small cat and the man steadies a bowl of eggs, giving the moment an informal family-record quality.
What appears in frame: An elderly woman in a pink striped blouse, an elderly man in a straw hat, a small cat, a bowl of eggs, outdoor seating, and a plain sunlit wall are visible.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, warm faded color, visible grain, slight frame-edge shadowing, and small exposure shifts typical of amateur home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, memory beat, or domestic-life insert between broader scenes of family, countryside, or Depression-era everyday life.
Historical context: The scene visually documents a quiet household moment with older adults, a pet, and gathered eggs, without enough evidence to identify occupation or event.
Research note: Faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright status, model releases, and any property permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1930s 8mm elderly couple with cat, Auburn California home movie, bowl of eggs, rural domestic life, and vintage family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Auburn or 1939 material, then with broader themes of older adults, pets, eggs, and home life.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Auburn, California home-movie footage from 1939, an elderly woman holds a small cat while an elderly man sits beside her with a bowl of eggs. — An older couple sit together outdoors, with a cat in the woman's lap and eggs in the man's bowl.

The woman faces the camera with a small cat in her lap, while the man in a straw hat holds a metal bowl of eggs in 1939 Auburn footage. — The woman looks up from the cat as the man sits beside her holding eggs.

A seated elderly couple in Auburn, California, with the woman holding a small cat and the man holding a bowl filled with eggs. — The couple remain seated together as the cat rests against the woman's lap.

At the end of the clip, the older couple sit close together outdoors, the cat visible near the woman and eggs visible in the man's bowl. — The man steadies the bowl of eggs while the woman sits beside him with the cat.

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