Auburn California-1939: White Family Enjoy Their Time At The Picnic Table And

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

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White Family Enjoy Their Time At The Picnic Table And — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: A white family enjoys a sunny outdoor picnic, seated around a table in a leafy backyard. Men in button-down shirts and suspenders, women in patterned dresses, share food and conversation under dappled sunlight. The 8mm film captures warm, slightly faded colors and natural movement, with a chain-link fence and green trees in the background. This vintage home movie footage offers authentic mid-century Americana, perfect for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific storytelling.

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: 127013189

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

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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 outdoor family meal footage for documentary, museum, education, or period lifestyle sequences.
Period detail: Visible period clues include button-down shirts, suspenders, patterned dresses, metal or wicker-style patio chairs, glassware, and a shaded backyard picnic setting.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in unstaged family behavior as adults sit close together, eat, pour drinks, and converse casually around a picnic table.
What appears in frame: The frames show seated adults, a picnic table with plates and bottles, patterned dresses, suspenders, leafy trees, dappled sunlight, patio chairs, and a chain-link fence.
Film character: The 8mm scan has warm faded color, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and slight frame jitter that support its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, memory beat, domestic-life cutaway, or transition into a family gathering or Depression-era California sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows a white family group sharing an outdoor meal in Auburn, California, reflecting domestic leisure as captured by a private home-movie camera.
Research note: People and recognizable faces are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed separately from copyright or physical film ownership questions.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Auburn California home movie picnic, 1930s white family backyard meal, 8mm outdoor family gathering, and vintage picnic table footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Auburn or 1939 California family footage, then with broader 1930s picnic and backyard leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A 1939 Auburn, California home-movie frame shows adults gathered at a shaded backyard picnic table with food and drinks. — Family members sit around a backyard picnic table in dappled sunlight.

Adults sit at a shaded picnic table in Auburn, California, with food, bottles, and glasses visible in the 1939 home-movie frame. — An adult at the table appears to handle a drink while others continue eating and talking.

A 1939 Auburn backyard picnic scene shows adults in shirts, suspenders, and patterned dresses eating together outdoors. — The group leans over plates and glasses during the outdoor meal.

The final frame shows the Auburn family picnic continuing, with adults seated around a table beneath trees in soft 8mm color. — Adults remain gathered at the table as the backyard picnic continues.

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