Auburn California-1939: White Chickens Walking In Dirt Enclosure

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

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White Chickens Walking In Dirt Enclosure — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: White chickens and roosters roam freely in a sunlit dirt enclosure, their red combs contrasting against their pale feathers. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie captures the natural movement of poultry in a rustic farm setting. The footage shows a mix of hens and roosters pecking and strutting across the ground, with a wire mesh fence visible in the background. The warm, slightly faded color palette and film grain evoke a nostalgic, mid-20th century rural atmosphere. This archival clip offers authentic, unscripted farm life footage ideal for historical or agricultural content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127013405

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: 1930s 8mm farm-life footage for productions needing authentic poultry, rural California, or smallholding cutaways.
Period detail: The frame may show late-1930s rural poultry keeping, with white chickens in a dirt pen and a simple wire fence visible behind them.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the chickens without staging as they peck, turn, and cluster in the enclosure.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white hens and roosters, red combs, dirt ground, scattered straw or debris, a wire fence, and deep shadow around the pen.
Film character: The 8mm scan has warm faded color, soft focus, visible grain, and uneven exposure that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural insert, agricultural cutaway, transition, or brief memory beat in a 1930s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents domestic poultry in an outdoor dirt enclosure, offering visual context for everyday rural animal keeping without broader claims.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property permissions should still be checked separately.
Research search match: Searches such as 1939 Auburn California chickens, 1930s 8mm farm animals, white poultry in pen, or vintage home movie chicken yard may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Auburn 1939 material, then broader 1930s farm animal or poultry footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

White chickens and roosters roam a sunlit dirt pen in 1939 Auburn, California home-movie footage. — White poultry move through a dirt enclosure with fencing in the background.

A group of white chickens and roosters cluster and walk in a fenced dirt enclosure in Auburn, California, 1939. — Chickens cluster in sunlight while others move near the edge of the pen.

White hens and roosters fill the foreground of a dirt poultry enclosure in 1939 Auburn, California footage. — A dense group of chickens stands and walks across the dirt pen.

Chickens and roosters spread across the sunlit dirt enclosure, with fencing and dark shade behind them. — White poultry move across the enclosure as the background falls into shadow.

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