Auburn California-1939: Dozens Of Newborn Baby Chicks Staying Warm In A

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

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Dozens Of Newborn Baby Chicks Staying Warm In A — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: Dozens of newborn yellow chicks huddle together in a brown cardboard box, staying warm under dim lighting. The vintage 8mm film captures the fluffy chicks nestled in straw, their soft feathers and curious movements visible through the grainy, warm-toned footage. A hand briefly enters the frame, gently touching the box. This authentic home movie offers a nostalgic glimpse into early 20th-century farm life, with natural film grain and slight camera shake adding to its historical charm.

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: 127013112

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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: Supports 1930s rural-life, farm, poultry, or animal-care archive requests needing a brief home-movie insert from Auburn, California.
Period detail: The cardboard chick box, straw bedding, warm indoor lighting, and 8mm home-movie texture may show small-scale poultry keeping in the late 1930s.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie feel as the camera observes clustered chicks and a hand briefly reaches toward the box.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include yellow newborn chicks, a divided brown cardboard box, straw bedding, dim interior light, ventilation holes, and a human hand near the box.
Film character: The footage carries warm 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, slight handheld movement, and uneven exposure consistent with amateur physical-film capture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, rural domestic insert, animal-care detail, or gentle transition in a farm or memory sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents young chicks being kept together for warmth in a simple container, offering visual context for home or small-farm animal care.
Research note: A human hand is visible, so likeness review may still apply, while no logos, readable brands, or identifiable private property are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1939 Auburn California baby chicks, 1930s 8mm farm animals, newborn chickens in box, and vintage poultry home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Auburn 1939 material, then related poultry, farm-life, animal-care, or rural domestic footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Auburn, California, 1939 home-movie footage, newborn yellow chicks cluster inside a brown cardboard box lined with straw. — Newborn chicks huddle together in a divided cardboard box under warm dim light.

Auburn, California, 1939 footage shows fluffy yellow chicks crowded on both sides of a divided cardboard box with straw visible behind them. — The divided box holds groups of chicks pressed together for warmth.

Newborn chicks crowd toward the front edge of a cardboard box in grainy 1939 Auburn, California home-movie footage. — A dense cluster of chicks fills the foreground of the cardboard box.

A human hand enters the 1939 Auburn, California frame near a divided cardboard box filled with newborn yellow chicks. — A hand briefly reaches toward the chick box as the birds remain clustered inside.

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