Auburn California-1939: Vintage Footage Of Farmer Feeding Various Flocks Of Chickens

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

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Vintage Footage Of Farmer Feeding Various Flocks Of Chickens — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: Vintage 8mm home movie footage captures a farmer feeding chickens in a rustic farmyard. White and light-colored chickens peck at the ground in a sun-dappled enclosure, with a wooden fence visible in the background. The scene shifts to a barn interior where a person in patterned trousers tends to a large flock of white birds on tiered roosts. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural lighting, evoking a nostalgic slice of rural American life from the late 1930s.

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: 127013491

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 rural California farm-life requests needing brief home-movie poultry feeding footage for documentary, museum, education or editorial use.
Period detail: The small farmyard, wooden fencing, hand-fed poultry and warm 8mm color may show late-1930s domestic agriculture consistent with the Auburn, California metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes everyday farm chores from a close, informal home-movie position as a person tends chickens without staged presentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white chickens, a dark rooster or hen, dirt yard, wooden fence, feeding troughs, roost-like rails, barn shade and a person in patterned trousers.
Film character: The clip has handheld 8mm texture with visible grain, warm color, high-contrast sun patches, soft focus and exposure shifts between yard light and barn shade.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural insert, agricultural cutaway, memory beat or transition into a sequence about household farming and animal care.
Historical context: The footage visually documents small-scale poultry keeping and routine farm labor, with context limited to what appears on screen and the supplied Auburn 1939 metadata.
Research note: People are partially visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, while copyright, property and location rights should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1930s 8mm home movie poultry, Auburn California farmyard chickens, farmer feeding flock and rural Depression-era domestic agriculture footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Auburn or 1939 California farm material, then broader rural poultry, livestock feeding and home agriculture scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Auburn, California 1939 home-movie frame showing white chickens and a darker bird moving through a sun-dappled dirt yard by a fence. — Chickens cluster and peck in a rustic farmyard enclosure.

Auburn, California 1939 footage frame with light-colored chickens scattered across a sunlit farmyard near vertical wooden fencing. — Light-colored chickens move through the yard near the fence line.

Auburn, California 1939 frame showing a partially visible person tending a dense group of white chickens in a shaded farm structure. — A person tends the flock near low rails and feeding troughs.

Auburn, California 1939 frame of white chickens clustered around feeding rails inside a darker barn or sheltered poultry area. — The flock gathers tightly around the feeding area in shade.

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