Auburn California-1939: Family Gathers For Outdoor Lunch In Garden

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

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Family Gathers For Outdoor Lunch In Garden — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: A family gathers outdoors for a sunny lunch in a lush garden setting. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures several adults seated around a table, enjoying a meal together. Men wear button-down shirts and suspenders, while women are dressed in period-appropriate dresses. The scene is framed by green foliage and a chain-link fence, with natural light creating a warm, nostalgic atmosphere. The handheld camera captures candid moments of conversation and eating, preserving a slice of mid-century American domestic life.

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: 127013168

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 American home-life requests needing outdoor family dining, garden leisure, or domestic social footage for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: Visible period clues include men in suspenders and short-sleeve button shirts, women in dresses, metal patio chairs, and a modest outdoor lunch table.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in unstaged family behavior as adults sit close together, eat, talk, and turn toward one another in dappled garden light.
What appears in frame: The frames show seated adults, a lunch table with plates and drinks, woven metal patio chairs, leafy trees, a chain-link fence, and strong sun patches.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, saturated color, visible grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that reads as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a memory beat, domestic-life cutaway, family gathering insert, or transition into a broader 1930s California home setting.
Historical context: The footage shows a private social meal in a garden setting and supports context around everyday family leisure without making broader historical claims.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright, while no logos, minors, or audible music are indicated.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Auburn California home movie, 1930s family lunch, 8mm garden meal, and vintage outdoor domestic gathering.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Auburn California 1939 material, then with 1930s family meals or garden leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Auburn, California 1939 home-movie frame of adults gathered at a garden lunch table with foliage and a fence behind them. — Family members sit together at a shaded outdoor lunch table.

Adults at a 1939 Auburn garden lunch sit around plates and drinks while sunlight filters through trees behind a fence. — The group remains seated as the meal continues in filtered sunlight.

A man wearing suspenders sits in the foreground as adults share an outdoor meal in a leafy Auburn garden setting. — A man in suspenders sits nearest the camera during the garden meal.

At the end of the clip, adults remain around the Auburn garden lunch table while a woman appears to gesture during conversation. — A woman gestures across the table as the family meal continues.

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