Cleveland Ohio USA-1939: African American Factory Workers

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationCleveland, Ohio, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Cleveland Ohio

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African American Factory Workers — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this grainy black and white footage captures African American factory workers at their stations inside a Cleveland, Ohio industrial facility. Workers in period-appropriate attire operate machinery under bright overhead lights, with large windows illuminating the workspace. The handheld camera moves slightly, offering a candid glimpse into mid-20th century American industrial labor. This archival home movie provides authentic historical context for documentaries, editorial content, and educational projects on labor history and civil rights in the 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: 124599349

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 1001 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1937-1938-1939
Reel-level location note: Cleveland
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: Cleveland, Ohio, 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: 1930s industrial labor footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences about factory work and African American workers in Cleveland.
Period detail: The clip may show 1930s industrial workwear, large interior machinery, high factory windows, and overhead lighting consistent with a period manufacturing setting.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld camera observes workers at their stations without staging, giving the scene a candid home-movie view of daily industrial labor.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include factory workers, a large machine body, bright windows, overhead fixtures, work platforms, dark interior space, and soft film-edge vignetting.
Film character: The black-and-white 8mm image has heavy grain, soft focus, high window contrast, slight handheld movement, and visible frame edges that add archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, labor-history insert, industrial transition, or memory beat within a 1930s American workplace sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually places African American workers inside an industrial interior, offering social context for workplace representation without identifying the facility.
Research note: People and a private industrial interior are visible, so likeness, privacy, property, and location-identification review may be needed separate from copyright status.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Cleveland factory workers, African American industrial labor, black-and-white 8mm workplace footage, and 1930s machine shop interior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Cleveland 1939 footage, then related 1930s industrial labor or African American workplace scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Cleveland factory interior with a worker standing near a large machine under bright windows and overhead lights. — A worker stands beside a large piece of machinery inside the factory.

A Cleveland factory worker appears near a large machine, with high windows and interior equipment visible in the background. — The camera holds on a worker and machinery inside the industrial workspace.

A worker bends at a station beside a large machine in the 1939 Cleveland industrial interior. — A worker leans down near the base of the machinery during the brief factory scene.

A worker crouches or bends beside large industrial equipment inside the Cleveland factory space. — The final frame shows the worker low beside the machinery, with bright windows behind.

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