Chelan Washington USA-1939: Men With Old Style Two-Man Felling Saw Moving Blade

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

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Men With Old Style Two-Man Felling Saw Moving Blade — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Chelan Washington USA in 1939 shows four men in red hats and lumberjack attire using a two-man crosscut saw to cut a large log in a forest. The men, dressed in plaid shirts and overalls, work in unison as one takes a drink from a bottle. The scene captures authentic early 20th-century logging labor with natural lighting, film grain, and saturated colors typical of home movie footage from the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122610134

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 1674 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: mt washington,quebec
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: Chelan, Washington, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1930s documentary or educational requests for home-movie views of logging labor, forest work, and recreational filming in Chelan, Washington.
Period detail: The red caps, plaid shirts, overalls, hand crosscut saw, and 8mm color footage support a late-1930s logging or staged work scene.
Home-movie behavior: The men appear aware of the camera as they saw, smile, and one drinks from a bottle, giving the work scene a casual home-movie quality.
What appears in frame: Four men in red hats, a long two-man saw, a large cut log, wooded background, plaid shirts, overalls, and a bottle are visible.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-print texture that read as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert or cutaway for logging, Pacific Northwest travel memory, or old-fashioned hand labor.
Historical context: The footage visually connects leisure filming with a forest labor demonstration or work moment, without confirming employer, site, or event.
Research note: Faces are visible and likeness review may be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright, location, and personal rights should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches on 1930s 8mm logging footage, Chelan Washington forest work, two-man crosscut saw, lumberjack clothing, and home movies.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel scenes, then Chelan or Washington 1939 footage, then broader logging, forestry, and hand-tool labor clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Chelan, Washington 1939 home-movie frame of four men in red hats gathered around a large log with a two-man crosscut saw. — Four men in lumberjack-style clothing work a long saw across a large forest log.

Chelan, Washington 1939 frame showing men around a cut log, with one man raising a bottle beside the two-man saw. — The group pauses or continues sawing as one man lifts a bottle near the log.

Chelan, Washington 1939 frame of men in red hats by a forest log, with the saw stretched across it and one man leaning back to drink. — A man leans back with a bottle while the others remain by the long saw and log.

Chelan, Washington 1939 home-movie frame of four men in lumberjack-style clothing around a large log with a crosscut saw. — The men gather around the sawed log in a wooded setting, with one still holding a bottle.

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