Auburn California-1939: Watching A Large Group Of People Happily Consume Food At

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

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Watching A Large Group Of People Happily Consume Food At — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a group of adults enjoying a sunny outdoor picnic. Men in light-colored shirts and suspenders sit at a table laden with food and drinks, laughing and eating under dappled sunlight. The footage shows natural, unposed interactions in a lush garden setting with green foliage and a chain-link fence in the background. The warm, slightly faded colors and film grain evoke a nostalgic 1930s family gathering, offering authentic archival footage for historical or editorial projects.

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: 127013196

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 home-movie requests needing outdoor social dining, family picnic, or casual California gathering footage for documentary or editorial use.
Period detail: The clip shows light shirts, suspenders, table service, glass bottles, and a garden picnic setting consistent with late-1930s home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in unstaged adults eating, drinking, talking, and reacting naturally while the camera observes from close range at the table.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include seated adults, a picnic table, glass bottles, cups, food, wicker chairs, dappled tree shade, garden foliage, and a chain-link fence.
Film character: The 8mm scan has warm faded color, visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, family-memory beat, picnic cutaway, or transition into a sequence about everyday leisure and social meals.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for adult outdoor entertaining in Auburn, California, with informal table seating and a garden setting rather than a public event.
Research note: Faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, likeness, and property concerns should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1930s 8mm picnic footage, Auburn California home movie, outdoor family meal, adults eating at garden table, and vintage social gathering.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Auburn 1939 material, then broader 1930s picnic, garden party, food, and family gathering footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Auburn, California 1939 home-movie frame of adults gathered at a garden picnic table with food, bottles, and chairs. — Adults sit together at a shaded outdoor table during a garden picnic.

A man in sunglasses raises a glass while seated with others at an Auburn, California garden picnic in 1939. — A man lifts his drink while seated at the picnic table in bright, mottled sunlight.

Close 1939 Auburn picnic view with one man drinking from a glass and another seated beside him at the outdoor table. — One picnic guest drinks from a glass while another man sits nearby at the table.

Auburn, California 1939 frame showing a man in sunglasses seated at a picnic table with another guest in the foreground. — A man in sunglasses pauses at the table as another guest leans forward beside him.

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