Auburn California-1939: Hundreds Of Chicks In Box And Woman Tending Fireplace

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationAuburn, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 California

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Hundreds Of Chicks In Box And Woman Tending Fireplace — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: Hundreds of fluffy yellow chicks crowd a cardboard box with ventilation holes, their soft down and tiny beaks visible in the warm, dim light. A hand gently reaches in to tend to the young birds, suggesting care and attention. The scene shifts to a woman in a blue and white patterned dress tending to a brick fireplace, likely preparing food or managing a fire. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie captures a quiet moment of rural life with authentic grain, color fading, and nostalgic charm.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127013141

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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: Useful for 1930s rural California home-movie requests needing poultry care, farm life, or domestic labor inserts for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The 8mm color home-movie look, patterned dress, cardboard chick boxes, and brick hearth may show late-1930s domestic and small-farm surroundings in Auburn, California.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged value in a hand reaching among live chicks and a woman bending to tend a hearth, recorded from a close family-observer position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include crowded yellow chicks, cardboard boxes with ventilation holes, straw bedding, an adult hand, a woman in a patterned dress, a brick fireplace, and hearth tools.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm archival texture with warm color fading, heavy grain, dim exposure, soft focus, and slight handheld framing.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a farm-life insert, domestic-labor cutaway, rural transition, or brief memory beat between broader 1930s family scenes.
Historical context: The images connect animal husbandry and household fire tending in a rural home-movie context without proving scale of farm operation or specific family identity.
Research note: A woman is visible and may require likeness review; no logos are apparent, while copyright, property, and location permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1939 Auburn California 8mm home movie chicks, rural poultry care, woman tending fireplace, Depression-era farm domestic life, and vintage home-movie animals.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Auburn 1939 footage, then 1930s California farm, poultry, and domestic hearth scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Auburn, California home-movie footage, yellow chicks fill cardboard boxes while an adult hand reaches in to tend them. — A hand tends crowded chicks in cardboard boxes.

Yellow chicks crowd cardboard boxes with straw bedding in this 1939 Auburn, California 8mm home-movie frame. — Chicks cluster together inside divided cardboard boxes.

A close 8mm view shows many yellow chicks packed into cardboard boxes, consistent with the Auburn, California 1939 metadata. — A close view of chicks gathered in cardboard boxes.

A woman in a blue patterned dress bends near a brick hearth in the 1939 Auburn, California home-movie scene. — A woman tends a brick hearth or fireplace area.

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