Cleveland Ohio USA-1939: Two Men Work Together In The Factory As Camera Pans

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

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Two Men Work Together In The Factory As Camera Pans — Clip Details

CLEVELAND OHIO USA-1939: Two men in overalls and caps work together at a large industrial machine inside a factory. The camera pans across the workshop, revealing the men operating the equipment and the surrounding machinery. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage footage captures the gritty, grainy texture of mid-century industrial labor with authentic period clothing and factory lighting.

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: 124599465

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: Supports archival requests for 1930s Cleveland industrial labor footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences about factory work.
Period detail: The clip shows period workwear, caps, overalls, heavy shop machinery, and low factory lighting consistent with the supplied 1939 Cleveland metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld pan observes two workers at close range, giving the scene an unstaged home-movie view of routine factory operation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two male workers, overalls and caps, a large industrial machine, worktables, columns, overhead lights, and shadowed shop equipment.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, heavy grain, uneven exposure, and handheld panning that preserve the physical texture of original home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief industrial insert, labor cutaway, workplace transition, or memory beat within a 1930s urban manufacturing sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents manual factory work and shared machine operation without identifying the company, product, or exact shop function.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1939 Cleveland factory workers, 1930s industrial labor 8mm, men operating machinery, and Depression-era workshop footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel factory shots, then Cleveland or 1939 material, then broader industrial labor and workshop machinery scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Cleveland footage, two men in work clothes stand beside a large industrial machine in a dim factory interior. — Two workers operate or inspect a large machine on the factory floor.

Two men in work clothes lean toward a large machine during a handheld pan inside a 1939 Cleveland factory setting. — The camera pans as the workers remain focused on the machinery.

A man bends at the machinery while another worker stands nearby in the Cleveland factory footage from 1939. — One worker bends closer to the machine while the other stands at its side.

The 1939 Cleveland factory pan opens onto a darker shop floor with machinery, overhead lights, and a worker partly visible at right. — The workshop interior comes into view as the pan moves past the workers.

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