Auburn California-1939: Two Men Eating Outdoors In Vintage 8mm Film

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

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Two Men Eating Outdoors In Vintage 8mm Film — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: Two men sit outdoors on a sunny day, enjoying a meal together. The man in the foreground, wearing a light blue button-down shirt, eats with a fork and occasionally looks toward the camera. His companion, in a white short-sleeved shirt and glasses, sits beside him, also eating. The scene is captured on vintage 8mm film, showing natural sunlight, green foliage in the background, and the characteristic grain and color saturation of home movie footage from the late 1930s.

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: 127013278

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 informal outdoor eating, adult social life, or California family footage as an editorial cutaway.
Period detail: The light button-down shirts, simple outdoor table setting, and 8mm color home-movie texture support a late-1930s domestic leisure scene.
Home-movie behavior: The foreground man eats, chews, and looks toward the camera, giving the clip an informal home-movie feeling rather than a staged meal scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two seated adult men, forks, food, a tabletop edge, bright grass or foliage, short-sleeved shirts, glasses, and strong daylight.
Film character: The footage has saturated 8mm color, visible grain, uneven exposure, soft focus, and slight frame-edge darkness consistent with scanned physical home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for outdoor meals, family gatherings, aging, friendship, or everyday leisure.
Historical context: The scene documents a casual outdoor meal among adult men in Auburn, California, without visible public landmarks or identifiable branded objects.
Research note: Faces are visible, so likeness or privacy review may be needed; no logos, minors, audible music, or private interiors are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Auburn California 8mm home movie, men eating outdoors, vintage lunch footage, and 1930s casual social meal.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel meal or family footage, then Auburn 1939 material, then broader 1930s outdoor leisure or food-and-drink scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Auburn, California, 1939 home-movie frame showing two adult men seated outside as one eats with a fork in bright sun. — Foreground man eats with a fork while another seated man is partly visible beside him outdoors.

Auburn, California, 1939 frame of a seated man holding a fork near his mouth as his companion sits beside him outdoors. — The foreground man pauses with a fork in hand while his companion sits at the outdoor table.

Auburn, California, 1939 home-movie frame showing a man chewing at an outdoor meal with a companion behind him. — The man in the foreground chews as the second man sits behind him in the sunlit outdoor setting.

Auburn, California, 1939 frame of two adult men seated outside during a meal, with the foreground man facing the camera. — Two men remain seated outdoors during the meal, with bright foliage behind them.

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