Cleveland Ohio USA-1939: Men in Fedoras Standing Beside Vintage Maroon Sedan

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

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Men in Fedoras Standing Beside Vintage Maroon Sedan — Clip Details

CLEVELAND OHIO USA-1939: Men in fedoras and overcoats stand beside a vintage maroon sedan on a city street. The 8mm home movie footage captures a moment of everyday life, with one man in a dark suit and another in a lighter coat and overalls. The scene is set against a stone building, with a second car visible in the background. The film exhibits natural grain and slight color fading, characteristic of 1930s Super 8 home movies. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American street scenes, ideal for documentaries, period pieces, or historical content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124600215

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: Archival 1930s Cleveland street footage for productions needing a brief everyday urban transport or pedestrian insert.
Period detail: The maroon rounded sedan, fedoras, long overcoats, suit trousers, and stone street-front building support a late-1930s city setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie feel as men pause, walk, and stand near a parked car while the camera observes from across the street.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a maroon sedan, men in fedoras, long coats, a second car, a stone building facade, windows, curbside pavement, and muted street color.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, handheld framing, and contact-print edge density that add period texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, street-life insert, transition, or memory beat in a Depression-era or prewar urban sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows ordinary male street dress and automobile presence in a Cleveland urban setting without identifying a specific event or landmark.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed in addition to normal copyright and source-rights assessment.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1930s Cleveland street scene, men in fedoras beside vintage sedan, 8mm home movie city traffic, and prewar urban America.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel street footage, then other 1939 Cleveland clips, then broader 1930s urban transport and everyday life material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Cleveland, men in fedoras and coats stand near a maroon sedan with a stone building behind them. — Men pause beside a maroon sedan on a Cleveland street.

The maroon sedan moves through the Cleveland street scene as two men in hats stand near a blue car and stone facade. — A maroon sedan moves past two men standing at the curb.

Two hatted men, one in a dark coat and one in a lighter coat, walk near the maroon sedan in the Cleveland street footage. — Two men walk past the side of the maroon sedan.

At the end of the 1939 Cleveland clip, two men in coats and hats stand near the front and side of a maroon sedan. — Men gather near the maroon sedan as the brief street scene ends.

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