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Phoenix Arizona USA-1956: Two Men Moving Furniture Out Of A Building

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  • Year1956
  • Decade1950s
  • LocationPhoenix, Arizona, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1956 Phoenix Arizona

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Two Men Moving Furniture Out Of A Building — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Phoenix, Arizona, 1956, showing two men laboriously moving a large wooden desk out of a building. The men, dressed in casual shirts, strain under the heavy load, their expressions conveying physical exertion. The scene unfolds outdoors against a plain stucco wall with a window, captured in the characteristic grainy, slightly faded color palette of mid-century home movies. The handheld camera follows the movement, offering a candid glimpse of everyday life and manual labor in the American Southwest during the 1950s.

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
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
120779944

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

  • 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
1956 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
Phoenix, Arizona, 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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Topics & Keywords

  • move
  • desk
  • wood
  • stairs
  • apartment
  • house
  • labor
  • work
  • man
  • hard
  • sweating
  • tired
  • heavy
  • boring
  • working
  • walking
  • lifting
  • cigarette
  • smoking
  • people
  • men
  • moving
  • furniture
  • building
  • phoenix arizona USA
  • 1956
  • 1950s moving day footage
  • vintage 8mm film
  • Arizona 1956 home movie
  • manual labor 1950s
  • men moving furniture
  • retro American life
  • archival 1950s footage
  • 8mm home movie
  • vintage moving scene
  • classic 1950s film
  • historic labor footage
  • old home movie
  • 8mm vintage footage
  • 1950s work life
  • nostalgic moving clip
  • vintage 8mm moving
  • 1950s Arizona
  • 1950s furniture move
  • vintage 8mm labor
  • 1950s home movie footage

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
This 1950s Phoenix 8mm home-movie clip can support documentary or educational requests for everyday domestic labor, moving day, or mid-century civilian life in the American Southwest.
Period detail
The casual short-sleeve clothing, stucco exterior wall, simple window, and heavy wooden furniture may show ordinary residential or apartment surroundings in Phoenix during the mid-1950s.
Home-movie behavior
The value is in the unstaged effort of two men maneuvering a bulky desk through a doorway or exterior passage while the handheld camera stays close to the action.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include two adult men, a large wooden desk or cabinet, a stucco building wall, a window, a doorway or stairwell area, a cigarette, and small greenery near the lower frame.
Film character
The footage has the soft focus, uneven exposure, color fading, grain, and handheld instability characteristic of scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a short insert, transitional memory beat, or cutaway for moving house, manual work, domestic change, or everyday 1950s life.
Historical context
The scene offers a modest visual record of adult men doing physical household or building-related labor without showing identifiable public landmarks or commercial branding.
Research note
People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed, while no logos, audible music, or clearly identifiable private interiors are apparent from the supplied frames.
Research search match
Useful search matches include 1950s Phoenix home movie moving furniture, 8mm men carrying desk, mid-century domestic labor, and Arizona moving day footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Phoenix or 1956 home-movie material, and then with broader themes of moving, furniture handling, domestic work, or everyday labor.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Phoenix, Arizona home-movie footage from 1956, two adult men move a large wooden desk or cabinet past a stucco exterior wall and window.
Two men carry a heavy wooden desk outside a building.
A man in a light shirt is partly hidden behind a bulky wooden desk or cabinet as it is carried along a stucco building exterior in the 1956 Phoenix clip.
The desk fills the frame as the men move it along the wall.
An adult man with a cigarette is seen in soft focus beside the edge of the wooden furniture during the short Phoenix moving scene.
A man with a cigarette moves beside the furniture.
The large wooden desk or cabinet is angled near a doorway or stairwell area, with a stucco wall and small greenery visible in the final Phoenix home-movie frame.
The furniture is angled near the building entrance area.

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