California-1939: Man With Shotgun Hunting Near Farmhouse

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

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Man With Shotgun Hunting Near Farmhouse — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a man in a light-colored shirt holding a long gun, likely a shotgun, as he moves through a rural California landscape. The footage, viewed from inside a vehicle, shows him walking across an open field with a small barn in the distance, then approaching a wooden farmhouse. The grainy black-and-white imagery and natural lighting evoke a nostalgic, documentary-style feel, offering a glimpse into mid-20th century rural life and hunting culture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
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: 127571091

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: 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: 1939 California home-movie footage supports documentary or education requests for rural life, hunting, firearms, and farm-adjacent travel views.
Period detail: The light shirt, open rural fields, older vehicle viewpoint, wooden outbuilding, and monochrome 8mm texture may show late-1930s farm-country life.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes a man moving with a long gun from a vehicle-side perspective, giving the scene an informal home-movie record rather than a staged hunting setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an adult man, a long gun, open fields, distant small farm structures, a vehicle edge, a wooden building, windows, and a doorway.
Film character: The clip has a grainy black-and-white 8mm look with soft focus, uneven exposure, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve its physical-film character.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a short insert, rural transition, firearm-related cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence on farm life or hunting culture.
Historical context: The footage visually situates hunting or firearm handling within a rural domestic landscape without proving the purpose of the outing or identifying the people shown.
Research note: People and a firearm are visible, so likeness, sensitivity, and property-context review may be needed separately from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 California 8mm hunting footage, rural man with shotgun home movie, farm field firearm scene, and vintage farmhouse cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1939 California rural scenes, then broader home-movie material showing farming, hunting, vehicles, or domestic exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 California home-movie footage, an adult man with a long gun stands near open rural fields with small structures in the distance. — Adult man with a long gun near open rural fields, viewed through vehicle framing.

The 1939 California frame shows a man carrying a long gun across a rural field, with vehicle framing and a small distant structure visible. — Man carrying a long gun through a rural field with a small structure beyond.

A 1939 California home-movie frame shows a man with a long gun near a wooden rural building and open fields beyond. — Man with a long gun beside a wooden rural building and open field.

The final frame shows a man holding a long gun beside a wooden farmhouse or outbuilding doorway in rural California, 1939. — Man holding a long gun at the doorway of a wooden rural building.

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