Auburn California-1939: Chicken Walking And Picnic Table

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

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Chicken Walking And Picnic Table — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: Sun-drenched outdoor picnic scene captured on 8mm film, featuring a long table set with patterned plates, glassware, and condiments under dappled sunlight. A person in a purple dress sits at the table, while the final frames shift to white chickens walking in a rustic coop. The footage shows natural film grain, warm color tones, and a nostalgic home movie aesthetic 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: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127013392

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 rural California leisure, outdoor dining, or small farmyard cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The set picnic table, patterned plates, glassware, simple outdoor seating, and chicken yard may show late-1930s domestic leisure and backyard food culture.
Home-movie behavior: The camera lingers on an arranged picnic table and then shifts to chickens, preserving an informal family observer's view rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a long tablecloth, plates, glasses, bottles, chairs, a seated person in purple, dappled sun, and white chickens in a dirt enclosure.
Film character: The 8mm image has warm color, soft focus, visible grain, edge shadows, and uneven exposure that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a picnic insert, rural domestic transition, food-and-leisure cutaway, or brief memory beat before a farmyard scene.
Historical context: The footage documents outdoor social eating and backyard poultry in Auburn, California, as seen through a private 1939 home-movie camera.
Research note: People are partly visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, likeness, and property questions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Auburn California home movie picnic table, 8mm outdoor dining, backyard chickens, and Depression-era family recreation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel scenes, then other Auburn 1939 material, then broader 1930s California picnic, rural leisure, and chicken-yard footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Auburn, California home-movie frame showing a sunlit outdoor picnic table with tableware and a partly visible seated person. — A set picnic table sits in dappled sunlight with a seated person partly visible at the edge.

Sunlit Auburn picnic table in 1939 home-movie footage, with glassware, bottles, plates, and outdoor chairs under trees. — Glassware, bottles, and plates are arranged on a long outdoor table beneath bright foliage.

Auburn, California picnic scene from 1939 showing a long table set with dishes and bottles, with a person partly visible nearby. — The home-movie camera holds on the set table, with tableware and a person at the left edge.

White chickens and a rooster move through a rustic Auburn chicken yard in late-1930s home-movie footage. — White chickens move through a shaded dirt yard beside fencing and wooden items.

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