Auburn California-1939: Woman In Blue And White Dress Cooks Over An Outdoor Fireplace

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

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Woman In Blue And White Dress Cooks Over An Outdoor... — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: A woman in a blue and white floral dress tends to a fire in an outdoor brick fireplace, preparing food during a sunny backyard gathering. The scene shifts to a family meal outdoors, with three people seated at a table under leafy trees, enjoying a picnic-style lunch. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie captures mid-century domestic life with authentic color and grain, evoking nostalgia for 1930s American family traditions.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127013144

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 California home-movie requests needing domestic outdoor cooking, backyard dining, or family-gathering material for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The clothing, outdoor brick fireplace, picnic table setting, and 8mm color home-movie texture support a late-1930s domestic scene, with Auburn, California and 1939 supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip records informal family activity as a woman tends food by the fireplace and adults sit at an outdoor table, preserving ordinary social behavior rather than staged performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a blue floral dress, a brick outdoor fireplace, seated adults, a shaded garden table, plates, cups, bottles, trees, and bright backyard foliage.
Film character: The 8mm scan has saturated color, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing that give the short scene its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a domestic-life insert, food-preparation cutaway, family-memory beat, or transition between outdoor leisure and meal scenes.
Historical context: The footage shows a small outdoor meal and backyard cooking setting, offering visual context for private family recreation and home entertaining in prewar-era California.
Research note: People and recognizable faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, privacy, and location rights should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 8mm home movie backyard cooking, Auburn California family picnic, woman at outdoor fireplace, and 1930s outdoor meal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Auburn 1939 family scenes, then broader 1930s home-movie material showing cooking, picnics, and backyard gatherings.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Auburn, California, 1939, a woman in a blue and white floral dress works beside a brick outdoor fireplace in a sunny yard. — Woman tending food at an outdoor brick fireplace.

Adults seated at a shaded backyard table in Auburn, California, 1939, with plates and drink bottles visible during an outdoor meal. — Adults gathered at a shaded outdoor table.

A 1939 Auburn backyard meal scene shows adults seated close together at a table, partly shaded by trees and surrounded by garden foliage. — Backyard dining scene with adults at the table.

Adults at a shaded backyard table in Auburn, California, 1939, with dishes and bottles on the table and foliage behind them. — Outdoor family meal under trees.

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