Chelan Washington USA-1939: Men Gathered for Meal at Dining Table

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

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Men Gathered for Meal at Dining Table — Clip Details

Vintage 1939 home movie footage from Chelan, Washington, showing a group of men gathered around a long table in a dimly lit dining hall. The black-and-white 8mm film captures a formal meal or meeting, with men in suits and ties engaged in conversation, eating, and gesturing. The grainy, high-contrast image and soft focus reflect the era's amateur film style, with visible film grain and occasional lens flare. The scene conveys a sense of camaraderie and historical authenticity, ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122610624

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Suits requests for late-1930s American social documentary use, providing a rare home-movie view of a formal community meal in small-town Pacific Northwest.
Period detail: Men in dark suits, formal table settings with cups and plates in a dimly lit hall interior suggest a late-1930s civic or fraternal dinner setting.
Home-movie behavior: An amateur 8mm operator captures candid moments of men conversing and gesturing at a communal table, with spontaneity absent from staged footage.
What appears in frame: Long dining table set with cups, plates, and glassware; multiple men in dark suits; dim interior space; background wall visible; animated hand gestures.
Film character: Heavy grain, high contrast, and soft focus typical of amateur 8mm stock give the footage an intimate, time-worn texture suited to archival assembly.
Edit role: Functions as a cutaway or insert in documentary sequences on 1930s civic life, fraternal organizations, or Depression-era American community and social ritual.
Historical context: Formal attire and a communal long table suggest a civic, fraternal, or professional dinner; the Chelan, Washington provenance places this in rural Pacific Northwest life of the late Depression era.
Research note: Adult faces are visible across multiple frames and individuals may be identifiable; private interior setting warrants clearance review before commercial use.
Research search match: Likely found via searches for 1930s men's dinner, Pacific Northwest civic gathering, Depression-era community meal, or black-and-white 8mm social scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other 1939 Chelan, Washington footage from the same reel, then Washington State 1930s community scenes, then Depression-era fraternal gathering clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Group of men in suits at a communal dining table in Chelan, Washington, circa 1939; cups, plates, and glassware visible in grainy 8mm footage. — Men in formal attire seated at a long dining table, Chelan, Washington, 1939.

Two men in dark suits at a communal dinner table in Chelan, Washington, circa 1939; one raises a hand mid-conversation. — Men in conversation at a formal dinner table, one raising a hand, Chelan, Washington, 1939.

Men in suits at a communal meal in Chelan, Washington, circa 1939; one man raises a hand in an animated gesture toward others at the table. — Man raises hand mid-gesture at a long formal dining table, Chelan, Washington, 1939.

Final frame of Chelan, Washington 1939 8mm footage rendered largely indistinct by motion blur; dining table and cups partially visible. — Camera movement blurs the final frame of the dining scene; table and cups faintly visible.

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