Auburn California-1939: Beautiful Fluffy Chicks Piled Up In A Cardboard Box

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

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Beautiful Fluffy Chicks Piled Up In A Cardboard Box — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: A vintage 8mm home movie clip captures a close-up of fluffy yellow chicks piled tightly in a brown cardboard box with ventilation holes. The warm, slightly faded color palette and soft focus evoke a nostalgic, archival feel. The chicks huddle together, some blinking and shifting, their downy feathers filling the frame. Shot on 8mm film, this charming footage offers a glimpse into mid-20th century rural life and animal care, perfect for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 127013116

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, animal-care, or childhood-memory sequences needing brief 8mm home-movie cutaway footage of chicks in a box.
Period detail: The brown cardboard poultry box, warm 8mm color, and soft handheld close-up may show small-scale animal handling in Auburn, California, in 1939.
Home-movie behavior: The close framing suggests a home-movie maker recording a simple, unstaged moment of newly hatched chicks huddling and shifting together.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include yellow chicks, a brown cardboard box, ventilation holes, interior dividers, straw or packing material, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The clip has warm faded color, visible grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing characteristic of scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for rural domestic life, farm animals, springtime, or animal-care sequences.
Historical context: The footage provides a close visual record of chicks transported or held in a ventilated cardboard box, without showing handlers or surrounding property.
Research note: No people, logos, or identifiable private property are visible, but copyright status and any agricultural-use context should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under 1939 8mm Auburn California chicks, vintage poultry box, home movie baby chickens, or rural animal-care footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Auburn or 1939 California home movies, then broader poultry, farm-animal, or rural domestic-life clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Auburn, California, 1939 8mm frame showing fluffy yellow chicks packed closely in a brown ventilated cardboard box. — Fluffy chicks huddle together in a cardboard box with small air holes.

A close 1939 Auburn home-movie frame of yellow chicks pressed together inside a brown cardboard poultry box. — A dense group of chicks fills the box, with the cardboard side and air holes visible.

Auburn, California, 1939 frame with chicks crowded in a cardboard box and a partially visible hand near the foreground edge. — Chicks crowd the box while a partial hand enters near the lower frame edge.

A 1939 Auburn 8mm close-up of downy chicks clustered in a divided brown cardboard box with visible air holes. — The chicks remain packed together inside the divided cardboard box.

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