Cleveland Ohio USA-1939: Black And White Video With A Brick Building With

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

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Black And White Video With A Brick Building With — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a series of industrial and commercial buildings in Cleveland, Ohio. The grainy black and white footage shows a brick factory with a tall smokestack, a long warehouse structure, and a modern-looking building with large windows. Bare trees suggest a winter or early spring setting. The camera pans across the scene, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-20th century urban architecture and industrial 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: 124600070

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 industrial or urban architecture sequences needing brief exterior cutaways from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s industrial buildings, brick construction, tall smokestacks, warehouse windows, and leafless trees consistent with winter or early spring.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a passerby or visitor viewpoint, with the camera briefly surveying factory and warehouse exteriors rather than staging a formal architectural record.
What appears in frame: Visible details include brick walls, tall chimneys, long upper window bands, bare trees, yard fencing or rails, low industrial roofs, and soft roadside foregrounds.
Film character: The black-and-white 8mm scan shows pronounced grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that give it a clear physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or establishing cutaway for urban industry, factory districts, or period city-memory sequences.
Historical context: The views suggest an industrial or commercial edge of Cleveland, showing utilitarian buildings and smokestacks without identifying a specific company or landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but building identity and property-related permissions should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Research matches include 1939 Cleveland industrial exterior, 1930s Ohio factory building, black-and-white 8mm warehouse footage, and home-movie smokestack views.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Cleveland footage, then broader 1930s industrial exterior or warehouse architecture material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Cleveland home-movie frame showing a brick industrial building, tall smokestack, and cluttered yard foreground. — Brick factory exterior with smokestack and yard details.

1939 Cleveland frame with a long warehouse-like wall, upper window band, and a tall smokestack near the edge. — Long industrial exterior with window band and chimney.

Black-and-white 8mm view of a Cleveland industrial building with upper window rows, brick wall, and leafless trees. — Warehouse-like facade with upper windows and bare trees.

1939 Cleveland frame showing the corner of an industrial or commercial building with broad upper windows and a leafless tree. — Building corner with large upper windows and bare tree.

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