Auburn California-1939: White Chickens In A Farm Eating During The Day

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

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White Chickens In A Farm Eating During The Day — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: White chickens crowd a dimly lit farm barn, moving actively around wooden feeding troughs. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the bustling activity of poultry in a commercial farm setting. The grainy, slightly faded quality and warm color tones reflect the era's home movie aesthetic. Chickens peck at feed and jostle for space, illustrating early 20th-century agricultural practices. This archival 8mm home movie offers a nostalgic glimpse into rural life and industrial farming in 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: 127013542

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: Useful for 1930s agricultural production needs showing poultry feeding activity in archival 8mm home-movie footage from Auburn, California.
Period detail: The wooden troughs, crowded white chickens, dim barn light, and warm 8mm color may show late-1930s small-scale or commercial poultry farming conditions.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the birds from a fixed, informal position, preserving unstaged feeding movement and flock density rather than a composed farm portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white chickens, wooden feeding troughs, dark barn walls, straw or dirt flooring, vertical posts, and soft daylight entering the enclosure.
Film character: The clip has grainy 8mm texture, warm faded color, soft focus, uneven exposure, and contact-print density that support its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an agricultural cutaway, rural-life insert, food-production transition, or brief visual beat within a 1930s farm sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents chickens feeding in a crowded farm enclosure without showing workers, signage, machinery, or broader farm operations.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Auburn California poultry farm, 1930s 8mm chickens feeding, vintage farm barn footage, and archival home movie agriculture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Auburn or 1939 California material, then broader 1930s poultry and rural agriculture scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

White chickens crowd wooden troughs in a dim Auburn, California farm interior, from 1939 8mm home-movie footage. — White chickens gather tightly around feeding troughs inside the barn.

A crowded group of white chickens feeds near wooden troughs in a shadowed Auburn farm barn, supported by the 1939 clip metadata. — Chickens press around the feeders as daylight catches their backs.

White chickens fill the frame around long wooden feeders in archival 8mm footage identified as Auburn, California in 1939. — The flock fills the barn floor around the feeding troughs.

White chickens move around a feeder beside a barn post in the 1939 Auburn, California poultry-farm clip. — Chickens jostle near a feeder in the shadowed barn interior.

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