Cleveland Ohio USA-1939: Smiling Businessman With Hat Inspecting Construction Site

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

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Smiling Businessman With Hat Inspecting Construction Site — Clip Details

A man in a fedora and glasses, dressed in a suit and tie, stands in front of a construction site in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1939. He smiles and gestures toward the unfinished building, appearing to inspect or discuss the development. The black-and-white 8mm film captures the grainy texture and vintage quality of a home movie from the era, with a backdrop of debris and a long, partially built structure. The footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century urban development and architectural progress.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124599957

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 Cleveland urban-development requests needing a brief business or construction-site inspection moment from 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The fedora, suit, striped tie, eyeglasses, black-and-white stock, and unfinished low building may show late-1930s business dress and construction surroundings.
Home-movie behavior: The man smiles, turns, and gestures toward the site, giving the clip an informal visitor-shot quality rather than a staged industrial record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a suited man in a fedora, eyeglasses, striped tie, debris-strewn ground, unfinished building walls, open sky, and handheld framing.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, mild flicker, edge shadowing, and slight handheld movement that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, inspection cutaway, location transition, or human-scale beat within a sequence on construction or city growth.
Historical context: The footage visually places a well-dressed adult man beside an active or recently worked construction area, suggesting everyday urban development without naming the project.
Research note: A recognizable adult face is visible, so likeness and contextual use should be reviewed separately from any copyright or footage-license analysis.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Cleveland construction site home movie, businessman in fedora inspecting building, and 1930s urban development 8mm footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other Cleveland 1939 scenes, then broader 1930s construction or business travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Cleveland, Ohio in 1939, a suited man in a fedora and glasses faces sideways near debris and an unfinished building. — A well-dressed man stands beside a construction site with unfinished walls behind him.

The 1939 Cleveland footage shows the man turning and pointing across a debris-strewn construction site with a long unfinished structure behind him. — The man gestures toward the partially built structure beyond the work area.

A smiling suited man in a fedora appears in the foreground of the Cleveland construction scene, with rubble and unfinished walls behind him. — The man smiles toward the camera near the construction site.

A wider 1939 Cleveland view shows a long partially built structure, open ground, and scattered construction debris in soft black-and-white 8mm footage. — The camera cuts to a wider view of the unfinished building and surrounding work area.

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