Auburn California-1939: An Old Farmer Feeds His Chickens

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationAuburn, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 California

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An Old Farmer Feeds His Chickens — Clip Details

Auburn California-1939: An old farmer in a straw hat and patterned shirt feeds chickens in a rustic coop. Shot on 8mm film, the footage shows white chickens clustered around feeding troughs, pecking frantically as the man pours feed from a metal bowl. The scene is framed through chicken wire, with natural daylight illuminating the farm setting. The grainy, slightly faded quality of the Super 8 home movie captures authentic rural life from the late 1930s. This archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into early 20th-century farming practices, ideal for historical documentaries, period pieces, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127013592

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 farming requests needing brief home-movie footage of poultry feeding and small-scale animal care.
Period detail: The straw hat, patterned work shirt, simple troughs, chicken wire, and 8mm color look may show late-1930s domestic farm routines.
Home-movie behavior: The man appears to feed chickens in an ordinary yard or coop, giving the clip an unstaged record of daily farm labor.
What appears in frame: A man in a straw hat, white chickens, metal feed bowl, wooden troughs, chicken wire, a doorway, and dappled daylight are visible.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, warm faded color, visible grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing through chicken wire.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, rural-life cutaway, period farming transition, or memory beat in a home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents small-scale poultry feeding as seen in a family-film context, without proving farm size, ownership, or commercial purpose.
Research note: A visible adult face and possible private farm setting warrant likeness and property review separate from copyright or source licensing checks.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1930s 8mm home movie chickens, Auburn California farm footage, old farmer feeding poultry, and vintage rural life.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel farm scenes, then Auburn or 1939 California footage, then broader poultry, rural labor, and home-movie themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Auburn, California 1939 footage, a man bends over a coop area as white chickens crowd near wooden feeding troughs. — A man feeds clustered chickens from a metal bowl in a rustic coop area.

The farmer continues feeding white chickens in the Auburn, California coop, with chicken wire and a dark doorway framing the scene. — The man pours or places feed as chickens press around the troughs.

Auburn 1939 home-movie frame showing the man reaching down near the troughs as chickens gather at the lower edge of the coop. — The farmer bends close to the trough while feeding chickens in daylight.

The final Auburn, California frame holds on the chicken wire, wooden troughs, doorway, and a few remaining chickens after the man moves out of view. — The scene settles on the coop structure and troughs with chickens partly visible below.

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