Auburn California-1939: Person in Brown Pants Feeds Flock of White Hens

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

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Person in Brown Pants Feeds Flock of White Hens — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: A person in brown pants and a long-sleeved shirt feeds a large flock of white hens on a wooden feeding platform. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie captures a quiet moment on a farm, with the hens gathered closely around the feeder. The footage shows natural movement and the grainy texture of Super 8 film, evoking a nostalgic, rural 1930s American lifestyle.

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: 127013528

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 or American farm-life requests needing real home-movie poultry feeding footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial context.
Period detail: The brown trousers, simple long-sleeved workwear, wooden poultry feeder, and 8mm color home-movie texture support the stated late-1930s farm setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes an everyday feeding moment from close range, with a person moving among hens rather than staging an action for the lens.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white hens, a raised wooden feeding trough, a person in brown pants, a long-sleeved shirt, dirt ground, deep shade, and a tree trunk.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, uneven exposure, slight blur, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural cutaway, farm-life insert, transition between domestic scenes, or brief memory beat about animal care.
Historical context: The footage shows small-scale poultry feeding in an outdoor farm setting, offering visual context for everyday rural routines without broader claims about agriculture.
Research note: A person is partly visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or music are apparent, but copyright and any property concerns should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Searches such as 1930s 8mm poultry feeding, Auburn California farm hens, vintage home movie chickens, and rural family farm footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Auburn or 1939 California material, then broader 1930s farm, poultry, and rural domestic-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Auburn, California, 1939, a person in work clothes stands near white hens clustered around a wooden poultry feeder. — A person stands among hens feeding from a raised wooden trough.

Auburn, California, 1939: white hens gather at a wooden feeder while a partially visible person stands near a tree trunk. — Hens feed around a long wooden trough near a tree trunk.

White hens crowd a wooden feeding trough in this 1939 Auburn, California farm home-movie frame. — A dense flock of hens gathers around the feeder on dirt ground.

A 1939 Auburn, California farm view shows hens feeding along a wooden trough in soft 8mm color. — Hens continue feeding closely together along the wooden platform.

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