Auburn California-1939: Yellow Chicks Huddled With Unhatched Eggs

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Yellow Chicks Huddled With Unhatched Eggs — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1939 captures a close-up of numerous fluffy yellow chicks huddled together in a wooden box, surrounded by white unhatched eggs and broken eggshells. The chicks, newly hatched, move slowly and peck at their surroundings, their soft down and curious eyes clearly visible. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows natural film grain and warm, slightly faded colors characteristic of the era, offering a nostalgic glimpse into early 20th-century farm life and animal husbandry.

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: 127013095

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.

View source reel context Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s rural life, farm-animal, incubation, or animal husbandry requests needing a brief archival home-movie cutaway.
Period detail: The visible wooden box, soft color, and 8mm texture support a late-1930s home-movie view of newly hatched chicks and eggs.
Home-movie behavior: The close framing has the direct, observational feel of a family camera lingering on newborn chicks rather than staged agricultural coverage.
What appears in frame: The frames show yellow chicks, intact white eggs, broken eggshells, a shallow wooden box, dark film borders, and warm indoor light.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm grain, soft focus, warm faded color, uneven exposure, and visible frame edges that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a farm-life insert, birth or springtime cutaway, rural memory beat, or gentle transition within a historical sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents small-scale poultry hatching as seen through a domestic or farm home-movie camera, without identifying a specific property.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private-property identifiers are visible, but copyright status and any location-property context should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Auburn California 8mm chicks, vintage home movie eggs hatching, yellow chicks in wooden box, and 1930s farm footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Auburn or 1939 material, then broader poultry, farm animal, or rural family footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Auburn, California 8mm frame showing yellow chicks huddled with intact eggs and broken shells in a wooden box. — Newly hatched chicks cluster among eggs and shells in a wooden box.

1939 Auburn, California home-movie frame with yellow chicks gathered in a wooden box beside unhatched eggs and eggshells. — Chicks gather tightly beside unhatched eggs and cracked shells.

Auburn, California 1939 8mm still showing fluffy yellow chicks pressed together with eggs and broken shells in a wooden box. — Fluffy chicks press together as eggs and shells fill the foreground.

1939 Auburn, California frame showing several yellow chicks among intact eggs and shell fragments inside a shallow wooden box. — Several chicks turn within the crowded box of eggs and shells.

Visually Similar Clips