Auburn California-1939: Chickens Crammed In A Coop Eating Their Meal

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

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Chickens Crammed In A Coop Eating Their Meal — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: Vintage 8mm home movie footage captures a crowded chicken coop filled with white chickens. The birds cluster tightly on wooden perches and the floor, pecking at feed in a dimly lit barn. Shot on 8mm film, the clip shows natural movement and grain, with a central pole dividing the frame. The scene evokes early 20th-century rural life and agricultural practices, with a nostalgic, documentary feel.

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: 127013554

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 rural California agriculture requests, especially documentary or educational edits needing real home-movie poultry-yard footage.
Period detail: The wooden troughs, crowded coop setting, and 8mm color home-movie texture may show small-scale poultry keeping in the late 1930s.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the birds at close range without staging, preserving everyday farm activity as the chickens feed and shift in the pen.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white chickens, wooden feed troughs, a dim barn or coop interior, floor litter, dark posts, and a central vertical divider.
Film character: The clip has warm 8mm grain, uneven exposure, soft focus, and slight handheld instability that give the scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural-life cutaway, agriculture insert, or brief memory beat within a sequence about food, farms, or animal keeping.
Historical context: The footage documents chickens feeding in a crowded enclosure, offering visual context for domestic or small-farm animal care without making broader claims.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-related context should still be reviewed before reuse.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Auburn California chicken coop footage, 1930s poultry farm home movie, 8mm chickens feeding, and rural agriculture cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Auburn California 1939 material, then broader 1930s rural farm and livestock footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Auburn, California, 1939 footage, white chickens cluster around feed troughs in a dim coop divided by a vertical post. — Crowded chickens feed around troughs in a dark wooden coop.

White chickens fill the Auburn, California coop frame, with several birds perched or feeding along raised wooden troughs. — White chickens cluster along raised troughs inside the coop.

The 1939 Auburn home-movie frame shows a dense group of white chickens around troughs, with the coop interior partly obscured by shadow. — A crowded feeding area shows chickens packed around wooden troughs.

Motion-blurred white chickens fill the lower Auburn, California coop frame as they jostle around a wooden feeding trough. — Motion blur catches chickens shifting around the trough near the end of the clip.

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