Auburn California-1939: Man Feeding Chickens in Barn

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

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Man Feeding Chickens in Barn — Clip Details

A man in a patterned shirt and brown pants tends to white chickens in a dimly lit barn on a farm in Auburn, California, 1939. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the man moving among the birds, offering ration as they peck at feed on wooden perches. The grainy, warm-toned visuals evoke a nostalgic, documentary-style look of mid-20th century rural life. This vintage home movie offers authentic archival footage of farm animal care during the 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: 127013580

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 or Depression-era farm-life edits needing authentic home-movie footage of poultry care and daily animal feeding.
Period detail: The clothing, wooden barn fittings, chicken wire, and warm 8mm color may show late-1930s small-farm routines, consistent with the supplied Auburn, California 1939 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The man appears focused on ordinary farm work rather than performing for the camera, giving the clip unstaged home-movie value.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in brown trousers, white chickens, wooden roosts or troughs, chicken wire, barn shadows, feed on the floor, and a vertical post.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, warm color, uneven barn exposure, and slight handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a farm-life cutaway, rural labor insert, animal-care transition, or memory beat within a 1930s domestic agriculture sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents everyday poultry keeping on a small farm or homestead setting without making broader claims about regional farming practices.
Research note: A person is visible but not clearly identifiable; copyright, likeness, and any property considerations should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Research matches include 1939 Auburn California farm home movie, 8mm chickens in barn, man feeding poultry, and 1930s rural animal care footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then Auburn or 1939 California farm material, then broader poultry, barn, and rural chore footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In supplied 1939 Auburn, California footage, a man stands behind chicken wire while white chickens gather near wooden barn fittings. — A man tends white chickens inside a shadowed barn area.

A man in brown trousers stands among white chickens near wooden rails in the Auburn farm barn scene dated 1939 by metadata. — Chickens cluster near the man and wooden rails inside the barn.

The man moves through a flock of white chickens in the dim barn, with chicken wire and wooden fixtures visible in the 8mm frame. — The man steps through the flock as chickens feed and move around him.

White chickens crowd the barn floor near a vertical post and dark doorway in the supplied Auburn, California farm footage. — A dense group of chickens gathers near the post and barn entrance.

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