United States-1957: Boy Gathering Eggs From Wooden Nest Boxes in a Chicken Coop

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationUnited States
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

farm chores
egg gathering
childhood
rural life
farm weekend
1950s family life
food origins

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld
Setting: indoor · Dim interior of a farm chicken coop with a bank of wooden nest boxes
Time and weather: unclear (interior) · autumn (September per the reel's title card) · not visible (indoors)
Lighting: Hard frontal light on the boy against a near-black coop interior, with brief warm flicker
People: 1 · One young boy with short dark hair, wearing a black leather jacket over a pale shirt, smiling at the camera
Objects: egg · wooden nest boxes · nest box perch board · leather jacket · light-coloured shirt
Colors: black · dark green · grey-brown · pale blue-white · amber
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The boy reaches into an upper wooden nest box.
He draws out an egg and starts to turn toward the camera.
Facing the camera, he holds the egg up with a big smile.
He presses the egg to his chest and raises his free hand.
He reaches back into the nest box for another egg.

Boy Gathering Eggs From Wooden Nest Boxes in a Chicken Coop — Clip Details

United States, circa 1957 home movie footage, probably at the farm titled Herring's Maple Glen on the reel: a boy in a black leather jacket gathers eggs inside a dim chicken coop. He reaches into an upper wooden nest box, turns to the camera and raises an egg with a wide grin. He tucks it against his chest and stretches back into the compartments for another. The single handheld medium shot catches him in hard light against a near-black interior.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
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: 4s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001695

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Minors are visible. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip, and a sensitive-use review is recommended.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: Yes
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1957 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: 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: Helps a documentary, education or heritage production that needs a genuine circa 1957 American farm moment of a child gathering eggs by hand.
Period detail: The boy's short side-parted haircut and black leather jacket may reflect 1950s boys' fashion, and the reel's title card dates the farm weekend to September 1957.
Home-movie behavior: The boy is clearly proud of his find, turning to show the egg to whoever is filming before eagerly reaching back for more, an unstaged family moment.
What appears in frame: A boy in a black leather jacket, a pale shirt collar, a white egg held up or pressed to his chest, oval-holed wooden nest boxes in two rows, a perch board and a dark coop wall.
Film character: Handheld 8mm colour with visible grain, a green cast, brief amber flicker and soft focus, with hard light on the boy against deep shadow.
Edit role: Works as a short insert or memory beat within a farm-life sequence, or as a warm cutaway between orchard and barnyard scenes.
Historical context: Hand gathering from multi-compartment wooden nest boxes points to a small flock kept on a modest farm, seen here during a family's weekend visit.
Research note: The boy is an identifiable minor whose identity is unknown, so likeness use is a separate caution from the film's copyright, and the coop is private farm property.
Research search match: 1950s boy collecting eggs, vintage chicken coop home movie, 8mm farm chores footage, circa 1957 rural childhood film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's Boy entering chicken coop, Boy in apple tree and Herring's Maple Glen sign clips, then the kitten-on-the-hillside clip, then other 1950s farm chore footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Boy in a leather jacket reaching into a wooden nest box for an egg inside a chicken coop on a US farm, circa 1957 — The boy reaches into an upper nest box and takes hold of an egg.
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Smiling boy showing an egg to the camera beside wooden nest boxes in a farm chicken coop, United States, circa 1957 — Turning to the camera, he holds up the egg with a wide grin.
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Boy holding an egg to his chest beside wooden hen house nest boxes, 8mm home movie on a US farm, circa 1957 — He holds the egg against his chest and lifts his free hand toward the boxes.
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Boy reaching back into a wooden nest box for another egg in a dim farm chicken coop, United States, circa 1957 — Egg in one hand, he stretches back into the nest box for another.
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