California-1936: A Peacock Walks Past Empty Drums in a Dusty Yard

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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A Peacock Walks Past Empty Drums in a Dusty Yard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1936, this vintage home movie captures a peacock walking across a dusty, sun-drenched yard in California. The bird moves past a large collection of empty wooden and metal barrels stacked near a weathered shed. The scene is framed by a dark window edge, with visible film grain, scratches, and a warm, faded color palette characteristic of early 20th-century amateur footage. The peacock's distinctive tail feathers are partially fanned as it strides through the arid landscape under a bright sky.

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: 127477960

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 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 archival requests needing a short rural animal cutaway, home-movie yard detail, or period atmosphere without visible people.
Period detail: The dusty yard, stacked wooden and metal drums, weathered shed, and arid open background may show a rural or work-yard setting in 1930s California.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from a shaded edge as the peacock crosses the yard, giving the scene an informal home-movie feel rather than a staged wildlife view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a peacock, stacked barrels and drums, a weathered shed, dry ground, scattered yard objects, distant low hills, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The clip has warm faded color, soft focus, visible grain, scratches, gate edges, and slight handheld framing consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, rural-life cutaway, animal behavior beat, or transition into a 1930s California home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for an outdoor California yard with stored containers and a roaming ornamental bird, without identifying a specific property or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1936 California 8mm peacock footage, vintage home movie animal in yard, dusty rural barrels, and Depression-era outdoor cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1936 California exteriors, then vintage animal, farmyard, storage-yard, or arid landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A peacock stands near stacked drums and barrels beside a weathered shed in 1930s California home-movie footage. — Peacock pauses by stacked barrels in a dry yard beside a shed.

The peacock moves across the dry California yard with stacked barrels, metal drums, and a shed behind it. — Peacock walks in front of stored drums and barrels in the yard.

A peacock crosses the foreground while stacked wooden barrels, metal drums, and a weathered shed fill the background. — Peacock crosses the foreground of a dusty storage yard.

A peacock walks at the right edge of the dusty yard as another dark bird-like figure remains near stacked barrels and a shed. — Peacock moves through the right side of the yard past stacked containers.

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