Auburn California-1939: An Open Crate Filled With Eggs And Yellow Chicks

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

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An Open Crate Filled With Eggs And Yellow Chicks — Clip Details

AUBURN CALIFORNIA-1939: Vintage 8mm home movie footage captures a wooden crate filled with newly hatched yellow chicks and scattered eggshells. The warm, slightly grainy film shows the fluffy chicks moving and pecking in a dimly lit barn or coop, with a rooster visible in the background. This authentic 1939 agricultural scene offers a nostalgic glimpse into early 20th-century farm life, perfect for historical documentaries, educational content, or vintage nostalgia projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127013065

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: 1930s Auburn, California farm-life footage for documentary or educational sequences needing newly hatched chicks, eggshells, and small-scale poultry imagery.
Period detail: The wooden crate, dim coop-like setting, 8mm texture, and hand-composed close view support the 1939 home-movie context without showing identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the chicks at close range as they crowd, shift, and peck among eggshells, giving the scene an unstaged domestic farm record quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include yellow chicks, broken white eggshells, an open wooden crate, dark coop background, warm light, and film-frame borders.
Film character: Warm color, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure falloff, and contact-sheet frame edges give the clip a physical 8mm home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, farm-life cutaway, birth-and-renewal transition, or memory beat within a rural history sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents small poultry handling and newly hatched chicks in a home-movie setting, while broader agricultural claims would need outside research.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s 8mm chicks hatching, Auburn California farm home movie, eggshells in crate, and vintage poultry footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Auburn material, then broader rural California, poultry, farm, or animal-birth footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Auburn, California 8mm frame showing yellow chicks clustered with broken eggshells in an open wooden crate. — Newly hatched chicks gather among eggshells in a wooden crate.

1939 Auburn, California 8mm frame with chicks standing in a crate filled with white eggshells and warm dim light. — Chicks shift around broken shells in the open crate.

1939 Auburn, California home-movie frame showing a closer crowded view of chicks among broken eggshells in a crate. — A closer view shows chicks packed together among the shells.

1939 Auburn, California 8mm frame with foreground chicks, broken white shells, and a wooden crate edge in warm light. — Foreground chicks fill the crate as eggshells remain visible behind them.

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