Cleveland Ohio USA-1939: Brick Building With Small Windows And Classic Car

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

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Brick Building With Small Windows And Classic Car — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a large brick building in Cleveland, Ohio, with rows of small windows and a flat roofline. The footage shows the structure from a low angle, likely from a moving vehicle, with a classic car briefly visible in one frame. The black-and-white image features noticeable film grain and a dark vignette, typical of Super 8 home movies. A person walks near the building, adding a sense of scale and daily life. The scene evokes mid-century American architecture and everyday urban 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: 124599616

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 1930s Cleveland urban cutaways, industrial streetscape inserts, or documentary sequences needing modest brick architecture seen in home-movie footage.
Period detail: The flat-roofed brick structure, divided-pane windows, street pole, and brief older car may show late-1930s urban building details consistent with the stated 1939 date.
Home-movie behavior: The footage appears casually shot from street level or a moving vehicle, with an unstaged pedestrian giving scale to the building.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brick building, rows of small windows, flat roofline, rooftop vent or skylight, street edge, utility pole, pedestrian, and a partial classic car.
Film character: The 8mm black-and-white scan has soft focus, grain, slight exposure variation, frame-edge vignetting, and gate shadows that preserve the home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief establishing insert, urban transition, architectural cutaway, or memory beat within a Cleveland or Depression-era sequence.
Historical context: The scene records everyday urban architecture and street activity rather than a named landmark, offering context for ordinary built environments in Cleveland.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from property or identity review.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Cleveland home movie street view, 1930s brick building, black-and-white 8mm urban footage, or old commercial building exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Cleveland 1939 footage, then broader 1930s urban architecture and street-life material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Cleveland 8mm frame showing a brick building with divided windows and a person near the lower right edge. — Brick building exterior with a pedestrian near the street edge.

1939 Cleveland frame of a low brick building with small windows and a rooftop vent, bordered by 8mm gate shadows. — Low brick building facade with divided windows and rooftop detail.

1939 Cleveland home-movie frame showing an angled brick facade, small windows, flat roof, and street foreground. — Angled street-level view of the brick building and window bands.

1939 Cleveland frame showing the brick building, a street pole, a distant pedestrian, and part of an older car at the lower left. — Street pole and partial older car in front of the brick building.

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