Chelan Washington USA-1939: Man Picking Cotton and Men Preparing Food in Field

Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationChelan, Washington, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Chelan Washington

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Man Picking Cotton and Men Preparing Food in Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Chelan Washington USA in 1939 shows a man in a wide-brimmed hat and work clothes picking cotton in a sunlit field. He carefully gathers the fluffy white crop and places it into a large sack. The grainy black-and-white film captures the labor-intensive process of cotton harvesting, with visible film scratches and edge damage. Later frames show two men at a makeshift outdoor table near a tent, preparing food with a hand-cranked machine, likely processing the harvest. The footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into rural American agricultural life during the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121507549

Rights & Clearance

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 1674 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: mt washington,quebec
Date: 1939 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Chelan, Washington, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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 rural American home-movie requests needing agricultural labor, camp cooking, or fieldwork inserts from Chelan, Washington.
Period detail: The wide-brimmed hats, work clothes, canvas tent, hand-cranked table tool, and black-and-white 8mm texture support a late-1930s rural setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie feel, with men pausing during field labor and food preparation rather than performing for a formal camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include men in hats, dense field vegetation, a sack or bag, a tent opening, an outdoor table, bowls, cups, and a hand-cranked machine.
Film character: The footage shows soft black-and-white contrast, visible grain, handheld framing, scratches, dust, and edge shadowing typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, rural labor cutaway, camp-life transition, or memory beat within a Depression-era or agricultural sequence.
Historical context: The frames show men working and preparing food outdoors, offering visual context for small-group rural activity without proving a specific crop or event.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, location, and personal rights should be checked separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1930s 8mm rural Washington fieldwork, men picking crop, outdoor camp cooking, home movie agriculture, and hand-cranked food preparation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Chelan 1939 material, then broader 1930s rural labor or outdoor meal-preparation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Chelan, Washington home-movie footage from 1939, a man in work clothes stands in a field holding a bag or sack. — A man in a wide-brimmed hat works among field plants with a bag or sack.

A man in work clothes and a brimmed hat stands among dense plants in the 1939 Chelan, Washington home-movie footage. — The field worker stands amid dense vegetation, facing toward the camera.

Two men prepare food or materials at a makeshift outdoor table beside a tent in the Chelan, Washington 1939 footage. — Two men work at an outdoor table set with bowls, cups, and a hand-cranked device.

The home movie shows two men beside a tent using a tabletop hand-cranked device with bowls and cups nearby. — Men continue preparing food or materials at a makeshift table near a tent.

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