Auburn California-1939: Elderly Couple Sitting With Cat And Eggs

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationAuburn, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 California

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Elderly Couple Sitting With Cat And Eggs — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: A vintage 8mm home movie captures an elderly couple sitting together outdoors. The woman, wearing a pink striped blouse and glasses, gently pets a dark cat on her lap. Beside her, a man in a straw hat and button-up shirt holds a small bowl containing several white eggs. The scene unfolds in warm, natural light against a plain wall, with soft film grain and rich color tones characteristic of 1930s home footage. This intimate moment reflects everyday life and domestic warmth from the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127013038

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 Auburn, California home-movie footage for documentary or museum edits needing a quiet domestic portrait of older adults with a cat and fresh eggs.
Period detail: The straw hat, simple outdoor seating, striped blouse, metal bowl, and warm 8mm color may show everyday rural or small-town domestic life in the late 1930s.
Home-movie behavior: The couple sits calmly for the camera as the woman pets the cat and the man handles eggs, giving the clip an unstaged family-record feeling.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an elderly woman in glasses, an elderly man in a straw hat, a dark cat, a small bowl of white eggs, outdoor chairs, and a plain sunlit wall.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight frame weave, warm color, and uneven exposure that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a domestic-life insert, memory beat, rural household cutaway, or gentle transition within a family-history sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for informal older-adult companionship and household routines without supporting broader claims about occupation or social class.
Research note: Faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, privacy, and any location or property concerns should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Auburn California home movie, elderly couple with cat, 8mm domestic life, eggs in bowl, and Depression-era family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Auburn 1939 material, then 1930s home movies showing pets, food, or family routines.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Auburn, California home-movie footage, an elderly woman pets a dark cat while a seated man in a straw hat holds a bowl of eggs. — An elderly couple sits in sunlight with a cat and a bowl of eggs.

The woman in a pink striped blouse looks toward the cat on her lap as the man beside her holds several white eggs in a small bowl. — The seated woman tends to the cat as the man steadies the bowl of eggs.

Auburn home-movie frame showing the seated woman cradling a dark cat as the man in a brimmed hat holds a bowl containing white eggs. — The cat rests near the woman's lap while the man sits with the eggs.

The older couple remains seated outdoors against a plain wall, with the woman holding the cat and the man resting a hand near the egg bowl. — A quiet domestic moment with the couple, cat, and eggs framed close together.

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