California-1936: Man Wearing Grey Hat Cleaning Railroad Tracks and Turkeys Eating From Feeder

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Year1936
Decade1930s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1936 California

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Man Wearing Grey Hat Cleaning Railroad Tracks and... — Clip Details

A man in a grey hat and dark clothing works on a railroad track in California, 1936, using a tool on the rails. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows the worker bent over the tracks with a black container nearby, set against a rocky hillside. The scene transitions to a yellow-tinted filter, then cuts to turkeys eating from a feeder behind wire mesh. The grainy, color-bleached quality reflects vintage home movie aesthetics from the 1930s.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127477218

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1936 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s California home-movie requests needing brief rail maintenance, rural animal, or everyday work cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The grey cap, work clothes, hand tool on rails, wire poultry pen, and color 8mm texture support a 1930s rural California home-movie reading.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged observer quality, watching a man work at track level before turning to turkeys feeding behind wire mesh.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a grey hat, railroad rails, wooden ties, rocky hillside, black container, wire mesh, feeder, and turkeys.
Film character: The clip shows grain, gate marks, warm fading, yellow exposure shifts, and contact-sheet variation that read as physical 8mm archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert for rail work, a transition from human labor to rural life, or a memory beat within a 1930s sequence.
Historical context: The images place manual track work and poultry keeping in a rural or semi-rural setting without identifying a specific railroad, farm, or town.
Research note: A worker is visible and likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, but copyright, location, and property context should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1936 California 8mm railroad worker footage, 1930s rural turkeys feeding, vintage home movie rail maintenance, and poultry pen cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other California 1936 material, then broader 1930s rail work or rural animal footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1936 California footage, a man in work clothes and grey cap bends over rails with a tool near a rocky hillside. — A man works close to the rails beside a rocky cut.

A heavily yellow-tinted 1936 California frame shows the rail worker bent near the tracks during the same work scene. — Exposure shifts yellow as the rail work continues.

Faded color 8mm footage shows turkeys behind wire mesh near a feeder, with strong staining and frame wear visible. — Turkeys gather at a feeder behind wire mesh.

In the poultry scene, several turkeys crowd near a feeder behind wire mesh, framed by wooden supports and warm faded color. — Turkeys feed inside a wire enclosure.

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