Auburn California-1939: Chick Hatchlings And Eggs In Coop

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

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Chick Hatchlings And Eggs In Coop — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a wooden coop filled with newly hatched yellow chick hatchlings and scattered white eggs, some still cracked open. The fluffy chicks move curiously among the eggshells, their soft down contrasting with the rough texture of the shells. Shot on 8mm film, this archival footage features warm, slightly faded colors and natural film grain, evoking a nostalgic, documentary feel of early 20th-century farm life.

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: 127013090

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, poultry farming, animal husbandry, and home-movie insert needs in documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The wooden hatch box, warm 8mm color, and simple farm setting support the 1939 Auburn, California metadata without adding identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The camera stays close on the hatchlings, preserving an observational home-movie view of small farm activity rather than a staged animal display.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include yellow chicks, white eggs, cracked eggshells, a wooden coop edge, dark interior shadows, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, warm faded color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing typical of scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief cutaway, farm-life insert, animal birth detail, or gentle transition into rural domestic or agricultural sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually documents small-scale poultry hatching and animal care in a domestic or farm setting, with no people or signage visible.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any property-context concerns separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1930s 8mm chick hatchlings, Auburn California farm footage, vintage poultry eggs, home movie coop, and archival baby chicks.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then Auburn or 1939 farm material, then broader rural animal, egg, and poultry hatching footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Auburn, California 8mm frame showing newly hatched yellow chicks clustered among white eggs and broken shells in a wooden coop. — Chicks gather among eggs and cracked shells inside a wooden hatch box.

1939 Auburn, California home-movie frame with yellow hatchlings moving around scattered eggs and shells in a wooden coop. — Newly hatched chicks crowd the hatch box as eggs and shells remain below them.

Close 8mm view from Auburn, California in 1939 showing small yellow chicks huddled around eggs and cracked shells. — A cluster of chicks shifts among eggshells in the wooden coop.

1939 Auburn, California 8mm still of fluffy yellow chicks beside intact eggs and cracked shells in a shadowed wooden coop. — Fluffy chicks fill the frame beside intact eggs and broken shells.

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