Auburn California-1939: Chickens Roaming In A Sunny Open Enclosure With Some Feeding

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

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Chickens Roaming In A Sunny Open Enclosure With Some Feeding — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: A flock of white chickens roams freely in a sun-drenched outdoor enclosure, their red combs vivid against the bright light. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures natural movement as the birds peck at the ground and strut across the sandy yard. The scene is framed by a dark wooden fence in the background, with dappled sunlight creating a warm, nostalgic glow. The grainy texture and slight motion blur of the vintage home movie add authentic charm, evoking mid-20th century rural life.

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: 127013475

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 home-movie farm animal footage suited for documentary cutaways, rural-life inserts, education programs, or memory sequences about small-scale poultry keeping.
Period detail: The scene may show a late-1930s backyard or farmyard poultry enclosure, with sandy ground, a dark wooden fence, and white chickens moving in bright sun.
Home-movie behavior: The value is observational home-movie behavior: chickens peck, strut, and cluster naturally without staged action or human handling visible.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white chickens, red combs, sandy yard, scattered feed or debris, a dark fence, a shaded background, and strong patches of sunlight.
Film character: The 8mm footage has warm color, visible grain, soft focus, high-contrast sunlight, and slight handheld framing that reads as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural cutaway, a transition into farm life, an animal insert, or a brief nostalgic memory beat.
Historical context: The clip offers a modest visual record of domestic poultry in an outdoor enclosure, useful for illustrating everyday rural or backyard animal keeping.
Research note: No people, faces, brands, or readable marks are visible, but copyright status and any property-context concerns should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1930s 8mm chickens, Auburn California poultry yard, vintage farm animals, home movie hens, and rural backyard enclosure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Auburn California 1939 material, then with other 1930s farm animal or rural home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

White chickens move through a sunlit Auburn, California poultry yard in 1939 home-movie footage. — White chickens gather and peck across a bright sandy yard beside a dark fence.

A group of white chickens roams across the bright sandy enclosure, with a dark wooden fence behind them. — Chickens cluster in the middle of the enclosure while one bird stands at the right edge.

One white chicken faces the camera in a sunny 1939 Auburn yard as other chickens move behind it. — A front-facing chicken stands in the foreground with more birds gathered near the fence.

White chickens continue roaming in the Auburn, California enclosure, framed by sunlit ground and a dark fence. — The flock spreads across the sunny yard, with several chickens visible against the shaded fence line.

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