Chelan Washington USA-1939: Two Men Fighting in a Dimly Lit Room

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

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Two Men Fighting in a Dimly Lit Room — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Chelan Washington, USA, in 1939, showing two men in a tense confrontation. The grainy black-and-white film captures a physical struggle between two men in shirts and ties, one wearing suspenders, in a dimly lit indoor setting. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with heavy film grain, soft focus, and natural camera movement, suggesting an unscripted, candid moment. The scene unfolds with visible struggle, including grappling and physical contact, offering a raw glimpse into a personal conflict from the late 1930s.

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: 122610923

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

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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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: A 5-second 8mm clip from ca. 1939 capturing a physical altercation between two men in a domestic interior, suited to 1930s social-conflict documentary sequences or dramatic period reconstructions.
Period detail: The man visible in frame 0 wears suspenders and a dark work shirt consistent with late-1930s workwear; dim interior lighting and sparse furnishings suggest a modest domestic or small-business setting.
Home-movie behavior: The close-quarters handheld shooting with motion blur across frames suggests the cameraperson was present in the room, recording an unscripted, spontaneous event rather than any staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in suspenders and dark shirt, a second figure's arm and torso, wooden furniture legs, a bare floor, motion-blurred fabric in close-up, dim ambient interior light, and heavy film grain throughout.
Film character: Heavy 8mm grain, persistent underexposure, and pronounced motion blur in mid-action frames give the footage an urgent raw texture characteristic of unplanned handheld shooting on period film stock.
Edit role: Best used as a brief dramatic insert or cutaway in sequences about interpersonal conflict, Depression-era working-class life, or as a memory-flashback beat in a documentary narrative.
Historical context: Unscripted physical confrontations captured on home-movie film in the 1930s are rare; the clothing and interior furnishings suggest a working-class setting consistent with late-Depression-era Pacific Northwest.
Research note: Adult faces are partially visible; individuals are unidentified private persons from a home movie; copyright and likeness rights require independent verification before editorial or commercial use.
Research search match: Researchers seeking 1930s fight footage, Depression-era home movie altercation, black-and-white 8mm confrontation, or vintage indoor physical struggle may surface this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same Chelan, Washington reel; then with 1930s Pacific Northwest domestic interiors; then with pre-WWII home-movie conflict or working-class subject matter.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 8mm home movie, Chelan, Washington: man in suspenders and dark work shirt mid-struggle, second figure's arm intruding from left, dim interior. — Man in suspenders caught mid-struggle in a dimly lit room, ca. 1939.

Motion-blurred 8mm frame, ca. 1939: close-up of dark clothing on a figure's back or shoulder during physical altercation, Chelan, Washington. — Motion blur records the intensity of the struggle at 0:02.

8mm home movie, ca. 1939, Chelan, Washington: man crouching or falling near wooden furniture in a dim interior, hands near the floor. — A man crouches near wooden furniture during the confrontation, ca. 1939.

8mm home movie, ca. 1939, Chelan, Washington: figure's lower body and hands visible near wooden furniture legs on a dark interior floor. — Hands and lower body near wooden furniture in the struggle's closing seconds.

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