Auburn California-1939: Vintage 8mm Footage of Chickens in a Coop

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

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Vintage 8mm Footage of Chickens in a Coop — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: Vintage 8mm home movie footage captures a flock of white chickens and roosters gathered inside a dimly lit chicken coop. The chickens move restlessly, some perched on wooden beams while others peck at the ground. Shot on 8mm film, the clip displays characteristic grain, soft focus, and warm color tones typical of home movies from the late 1930s. The dark background and natural lighting create a nostalgic, candid atmosphere, offering a glimpse into rural farm life during the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127013062

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 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: Useful for 1930s rural-life or farm-animal archive requests needing real 8mm home-movie material from Auburn, California.
Period detail: The dim wooden coop, loose flock, and soft 8mm color may show small-scale backyard or farm poultry keeping in the late 1930s.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the chickens at close range without staging as birds perch, peck, and shift through the coop.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white chickens, roosters with red combs, dark coop walls, wooden perches, straw or dirt floor, and a feeder-like trough.
Film character: The footage has dense shadows, soft focus, visible grain, gate weave, and warm color typical of scanned late-1930s 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural-life insert, farm cutaway, domestic memory beat, or transition into food, agriculture, or home-place scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers a brief view of poultry kept in a modest coop setting, suggesting everyday rural or household farm activity rather than a formal agricultural display.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and any property-right questions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1939 8mm chickens in coop, Auburn California home movie poultry, 1930s farm animals, and vintage backyard chickens footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel farm or Auburn material, then with 1939 California rural-life clips, then with broader poultry and home-garden footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Auburn, California 8mm frame showing white chickens and roosters clustered on a dim coop floor. — Chickens and roosters gather in the shadowed coop at the start of the shot.

White chickens and roosters move through a dark Auburn, California coop in this 1939 home-movie frame. — The flock shifts around the coop, with birds visible on the ground and near raised perches.

Late-1930s 8mm frame of white chickens and roosters standing, pecking, and clustering inside a dark coop. — Chickens remain grouped in the dim interior, with one bird prominent near the foreground.

Auburn, California 1939 home-movie frame with white chickens and roosters dispersed across a dim coop interior. — Birds spread across the coop floor as others remain near the darker background and side trough.

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