Auburn California-1939: Farmer Feeding White Chickens In Barn

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

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Farmer Feeding White Chickens In Barn — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: A person in work clothes tends to a flock of white chickens inside a dimly lit barn. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the farmer feeding the birds from a bucket, with chickens running and pecking at the ground. The scene shows layered wooden perches and wire mesh, with natural light filtering through. The grainy, warm-toned visuals evoke a nostalgic, authentic slice of rural American farm life in the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127013518

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 agriculture requests needing real 8mm home-movie footage of poultry feeding and everyday farm labor.
Period detail: The work clothes, wooden troughs, dim barn setting, and small-scale flock may show late-1930s poultry keeping consistent with the Auburn, California metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes a person feeding chickens at close range, giving the scene an informal home-movie view of routine farm chores rather than staged demonstration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a person in work clothes, white chickens, a feed bucket or scoop, wooden troughs, dirt flooring, dim barn shadows, and bright patches of daylight.
Film character: The 8mm image has warm color, heavy grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet edge darkness that add period texture to the archive scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural-life insert, agricultural cutaway, domestic labor beat, or transition into broader 1930s farm and food-production material.
Historical context: The clip visually documents small-scale poultry care and hand feeding, offering social context for everyday farm work without making broader claims about production methods.
Research note: A person is visible but not clearly identifiable; copyright, likeness, and any property considerations should be reviewed before publication or commercial use.
Research search match: Searches such as 1930s 8mm chickens, Auburn California farm footage, farmer feeding poultry, white chickens in barn, and rural home movie may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Auburn 1939 material, then broader 1930s rural California or poultry-farming footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Auburn, California 1939 footage, a farm worker stands in a dim barn as white chickens gather around wooden troughs. — A worker stands over a flock of white chickens clustered around feeding troughs.

A worker appears to place feed near wooden troughs as white chickens crowd the dim barn interior in Auburn, California footage from 1939. — The worker bends toward the feeding area while chickens gather and peck nearby.

The 1939 Auburn farm scene shows a person holding a small bucket or scoop beside wooden poultry troughs as white chickens cluster below. — A person tends the feeding troughs as chickens crowd around the barn floor.

A farm worker stands over a wooden feeding trough with white chickens moving through the dim Auburn, California barn in 1939 home-movie footage. — White chickens gather around the trough while the worker remains beside them.

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