Cleveland Ohio USA-1939: A Hard Day Of Work

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

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A Hard Day Of Work — Clip Details

A man in a light-colored shirt and dark trousers works intensely in a dimly lit industrial setting, operating heavy machinery in a 1939 8mm home movie. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the physical strain of factory labor with visible sweat and effort as the worker handles large metal components. The grainy black-and-white image, framed by film borders, conveys the gritty reality of mid-20th century industrial work in Cleveland, Ohio. This authentic archival footage offers a raw glimpse into the daily toil of a factory worker during the Great Depression era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124599399

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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 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 Cleveland industrial labor footage for documentaries, museum exhibits, education programs, or editorial sequences needing real home-movie views of manual factory work.
Period detail: The dim machinery, dark work clothes, and black-and-white 8mm texture support a late-1930s industrial setting, with the Cleveland and 1939 identification coming from supplied clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged value because the worker appears focused on a physical task rather than performing for the camera, giving a direct home-movie view of labor in progress.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a light shirt, dark trousers, large rounded machinery, metal rails or handles, a dim workshop floor, film borders, and heavy grain.
Film character: The footage carries strong 8mm character through coarse grain, low-light exposure, soft focus, high contrast, and visible frame edges from the original physical film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, labor cutaway, transition beat, or memory fragment within a sequence about work, industry, or Depression-era daily life.
Historical context: The scene visually situates one worker within a heavy industrial environment, suggesting physically demanding shop-floor labor without identifying the facility or employer.
Research note: A person is visible and may require likeness review; no logos are apparent, but copyright, likeness, workplace access, and property questions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Cleveland factory worker, 1930s industrial labor, 8mm home movie machinery, black-and-white workshop footage, and manual work archive clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Cleveland material, then broader 1930s factory, machinery, and manual labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Cleveland home-movie footage, a worker in a light shirt leans toward heavy machinery in a dim shop setting. — Worker bends into a machine area in the dim industrial scene.

A man works close to large rounded machinery, with soft focus and heavy grain from the 8mm black-and-white scan. — Worker leans over equipment beside rounded machinery.

The worker appears partly turned away while handling equipment in the dark industrial interior identified by metadata as Cleveland in 1939. — Worker turns toward equipment in the workshop area.

A worker in a light shirt stands by heavy machinery; a bright indistinct form at the right edge may be another person or object. — Worker remains beside the machine as the scene shifts slightly.

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