Auburn California-1939: Picnic Outside Enjoying Food And Company

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationAuburn, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 California

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Picnic Outside Enjoying Food And Company — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: A man in a white shirt and suspenders enjoys a picnic outdoors, seated at a table covered with a patterned cloth. Sunlight dapples through trees, illuminating condiments, glasses, and food. A woman in a patterned dress sits across from him, sharing the meal. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie captures a candid moment of mid-century American family life, with warm colors and natural film grain.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127013371

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 a candid California picnic or outdoor family meal for documentary, museum, education, or period lifestyle edits.
Period detail: The white shirt with suspenders, patterned table covering, glassware, picnic food, and dappled outdoor setting support a late-1930s home-life reading.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged meal moment as a seated man eats at a picnic table while another adult sits nearby, giving the scene intimate family-record value.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in glasses and suspenders, plates of food, drinking glasses, condiment bottles, a patterned cloth, shaded trees, and a woman across the table.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, warm color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame edges that add physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, family-memory cutaway, food-and-leisure transition, or period lifestyle beat within a 1930s domestic sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents an outdoor social meal in Auburn, California, reflecting everyday family leisure rather than a public event or identifiable landmark.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are evident, and copyright status is separate from personal rights clearance.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Auburn California picnic footage, 1930s 8mm family meal, vintage outdoor dining home movie, and Depression-era leisure cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Auburn or 1939 California material, then broader home-movie scenes of picnics, meals, and family leisure.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Auburn, California home-movie footage, a man in glasses sits at a shaded picnic table with plates, glasses, and condiments. — A seated man pauses over a picnic meal at a shaded outdoor table.

The man leans over his plate during a 1939 Auburn, California picnic, with drinks, condiments, and another adult partly visible across the table. — The picnic continues as the man bends toward his plate to eat.

A close home-movie view shows the man eating at the shaded Auburn picnic table, with glassware, plates, and a partially visible companion nearby. — A candid close view of the man eating during the outdoor meal.

The final frame keeps focus on the man at the Auburn picnic table, with food, glasses, and another seated adult partly visible in the background. — The brief picnic scene ends with the man still seated over his meal.

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