Auburn California-1939: Man Feeds Chickens in Barn

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

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Man Feeds Chickens in Barn — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: A man in a chicken-wire patterned shirt and brown trousers tends to a flock of white chickens in a dimly lit barn. The vintage 8mm film captures the birds crowded on wooden perches and feeding trays, with natural light highlighting their feathers against the dark interior. The footage shows a quiet moment of farm life, with the man bending to feed the chickens, showcasing mid-century rural agriculture. Shot on 8mm film, this archival home movie offers a nostalgic glimpse into early 20th-century farming practices.

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: 127013565

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s rural California farm-life requests needing brief documentary cutaways of poultry care, barn interiors, or home-movie agricultural routines.
Period detail: The 8mm footage may show late-1930s work clothing, simple wooden poultry fixtures, and a dark barn or coop lit mainly by daylight from one side.
Home-movie behavior: The man appears absorbed in routine feeding or tending, giving the clip an unstaged home-movie view of practical farm work rather than a posed scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man bending over, white chickens, wooden perches, feeding trays, chicken wire, a dim barn interior, and strong patches of daylight.
Film character: Soft 8mm grain, uneven exposure, warm color, and slight frame instability give the footage a physical home-movie texture consistent with scanned vintage film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, rural transition, or memory beat within sequences about farms, poultry keeping, family land, or Depression-era domestic work.
Historical context: The scene visually documents small-scale poultry care in a farm setting, with human labor and crowded birds shown from a close home-movie viewpoint.
Research note: A person is visible from behind, so likeness review may still be relevant; no logos are visible, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1939 Auburn California farm footage, 8mm chickens in barn, vintage poultry feeding, rural home movie agriculture, and man tending chickens.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other Auburn or 1939 California home movies, then with rural farm, animal care, and domestic agriculture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

White chickens gather on wooden perches and trays in a dim Auburn, California farm interior, from 1939 home-movie footage. — Chickens crowd the wooden poultry fixtures in the dim barn interior.

A crowded flock of white chickens stands across wooden perches in the dim barn, with daylight catching feathers in the 1939 Auburn footage. — A flock of white chickens occupies the raised wooden perches.

A man in patterned work clothes bends toward feeding trays as white chickens move around him in a 1939 Auburn, California barn scene. — The man bends over the feeding area while chickens gather nearby.

Seen through chicken wire, the man tends white chickens around wooden trays in the dim Auburn farm interior, supported by the 1939 clip metadata. — The man tends the chickens from inside the coop or barn area.

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