Cleveland Ohio USA-1939: Man Stands Next To Empty Brick Building On A Cloudy Day

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

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Man Stands Next To Empty Brick Building On A Cloudy Day — Clip Details

A grainy 8mm home movie from 1939 captures a man standing beside an empty brick building in Cleveland, Ohio. The footage begins with a dark, indistinct view before revealing the modernist structure with large windows and a covered entrance. The man, dressed in period attire, stands near the building's base on a cloudy day. The black-and-white film shows significant grain and vintage artifacts, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-20th century architecture and everyday life.

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: 124599570

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing late-1930s Cleveland home-movie views of modern brick architecture, street-adjacent buildings, or quiet urban establishing material.
Period detail: The large multi-pane windows, flat covered entrance, brickwork, and period clothing may show late-1930s urban institutional or commercial architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The value comes from an unstaged observer's view as a man stands near the building while the camera settles on the facade.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brick building, broad windows, covered entry, exterior steps, low retaining wall, cloudy sky, film edge, and a man near the wall.
Film character: The clip has heavy black-and-white 8mm grain, soft focus, exposure shifts, gate shadows, and handheld framing that preserve its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief architectural cutaway, urban transition, or memory beat between broader Cleveland or 1930s daily-life sequences.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for everyday built environments in Cleveland without identifying the building, institution, or event shown.
Research note: A visible person and unidentified building suggest likeness and property review may be needed, separate from any copyright assessment of the film scan.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Cleveland 8mm home movie, 1930s brick building exterior, man outside modernist building, and vintage urban architecture footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Cleveland 1939 exteriors, then broader 1930s urban architecture and everyday street views.

Still Frames From This Clip

Dark opening frame from a 1939 Cleveland 8mm clip, with only a partial building edge and shadowed exterior shapes visible. — Underexposed opening view before the building exterior becomes clear.

1939 Cleveland view of a brick building exterior with broad windows, a covered entrance, steps, and a man standing near the lower wall. — Brick building facade with entrance canopy, steps, and a man at the edge of the frame.

Closer 1939 Cleveland frame showing the brick building facade, window bays, entrance columns, exterior steps, and a man near the wall. — Closer look at the building entrance and windows with a man standing near the lower wall.

Final 1939 Cleveland frame with the brick building, covered entry, broad windows, exterior steps, and two people partly visible near the lower edge. — Building exterior and entrance steps with two people partly visible at the bottom of the frame.

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