California-1936: Bird Struggling To Eat In Desolate Dry Landscape

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

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Bird Struggling To Eat In Desolate Dry Landscape — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1936, this vintage home movie captures a desolate, grassy dry landscape in California. A small bird struggles to eat in the arid terrain, its movements visible against the sparse vegetation. The footage shows natural, unsteady camera movement, likely filmed from a moving vehicle, with the frame bordered by dark edges. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color fading, and scratches, conveying a raw, historic feel. This archival clip offers a poignant glimpse into a forgotten moment of survival in the American West.

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: 127478071

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

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 California archive requests needing arid Western landscape, small wildlife, or survival-themed home-movie cutaways.
Period detail: The 8mm color image and metadata support a 1936 California setting, while the visible scene itself shows only open dry scrubland without identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged roadside or vehicle-window perspective, observing a small bird in sparse terrain rather than a composed wildlife setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dry brush, pale grasses, low rolling horizon, open sky, dark film-frame borders, scratches, and a small bird near the ground.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture with soft focus, faded color, gate edges, dust marks, scratches, and slight handheld or moving-camera instability.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, transition, environmental insert, or quiet memory beat for drought, wildlife, or rural California sequences.
Historical context: The scene visually suggests dry open rangeland or scrub habitat in California, but it does not identify a specific county, event, or documented drought condition.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, though copyright status and source permissions should still be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Search matches include 1936 California 8mm dry landscape, vintage home movie small bird, arid scrubland wildlife, and Depression-era Western landscape footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1936 California footage, then broader dry landscape, wildlife, or rural American West material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1936 California 8mm frame showing dry brush, low horizon, pale sky, and dark gate edges from the film scan. — Dry scrub and low hills appear through a bordered 8mm frame.

1936 California 8mm view of sparse arid vegetation, a low horizon, pale sky, and dark film-frame edges. — Sparse brush stretches across a dry open landscape.

Soft 8mm frame from 1936 California showing dry grasses, scrub, distant low land, and visible film wear. — A soft, unsteady view passes across dry grasses and brush.

1936 California 8mm frame showing a small bird on dry ground amid sparse brush, with faded color and film grain. — A small bird stands near the ground in sparse dry vegetation.

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