Cleveland Ohio USA-1939: Men Working In A Factory With A Big Piece Of Spinning Machinery

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

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Men Working In A Factory With A Big Piece Of Spinning... — Clip Details

CLEVELAND OHIO USA-1939: Men work in a dimly lit factory, operating large industrial machinery. A worker in a light shirt and dark trousers tends to a massive spinning metal component, likely a lathe or press, while another man in overalls leans over equipment in the background. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows heavy machinery in operation with visible film grain and a vintage aesthetic. The scene captures the intensity and scale of mid-20th century industrial labor, with workers focused on their tasks amidst the clatter of machinery.

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: 124599424

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: Useful for 1930s industrial labor requests needing editorial footage of factory machinery and workers in Cleveland, Ohio.
Period detail: The dim factory interior, heavy metal machinery, work shirts, overalls, and black-and-white 8mm texture support a late-1930s industrial setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes working men from close range, giving an unstaged view of attention, posture, and movement around active machinery.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large spinning metal wheel, a worker in a light shirt, industrial equipment, pipes or posts, a dark factory interior, and work surfaces.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing that preserve the physical feel of original home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an industrial cutaway, labor insert, machinery transition, or brief historical texture between broader factory scenes.
Historical context: The footage shows men operating heavy equipment in an industrial workplace, offering visual context for manual factory labor before modern safety practices became more standardized.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, but copyright and any property or workplace permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Cleveland factory footage, 8mm industrial workers, 1930s machinery, men at a lathe, and home-movie manufacturing scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Cleveland 1939 material, then broader 1930s factory, machinery, and industrial labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Cleveland, Ohio in 1939, a man tends a large rotating industrial component in a dark factory space. — A worker leans toward a large spinning machine in the factory.

A factory worker appears to monitor or adjust a large rotating machine part in 1939 Cleveland industrial footage. — The worker stays close to the rotating machinery as it runs.

The frame shows a man leaning over heavy industrial equipment, with a large circular machine part filling the foreground. — A large circular machine part dominates the foreground as the worker leans in.

A man works beside a large spinning industrial component in dim 1939 Cleveland factory footage. — The worker remains positioned beside the spinning machine near other equipment.

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