Cleveland Ohio USA-1939: Man Wearing Black Coat Smiles For Camera While Walking

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

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Man Wearing Black Coat Smiles For Camera While Walking — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a man in a dark coat and fedora smiling warmly at the camera while walking through a snowy Cleveland street. The footage shows classic mid-century Americana with period automobiles dusted in snow and bare trees lining the sidewalk. A brief portrait of a smiling couple appears, adding to the nostalgic, personal feel of the archival clip. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the authentic look of a 1930s home movie, offering a candid glimpse into everyday life during the era.

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: 124600628

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 winter street-life requests needing home-movie views of pedestrians, parked cars, and informal portraits for documentary or museum context.
Period detail: The clip shows period coats, a fedora, snow-covered streets, bare trees, and rounded late-1930s automobiles consistent with the 1939 Cleveland metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual attention to people noticing the camera, including a man walking outdoors and a smiling couple posed briefly indoors or near a doorway.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a fedora-wearing man, dark overcoat, snowy sidewalk, bare trees, parked cars, a street sign post, and a smiling adult couple.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, faded color, uneven exposure, dust marks, and handheld framing typical of scanned original home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, winter street cutaway, period transportation insert, or personal portrait transition within a 1930s sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers a small domestic view of everyday winter movement and social posing in Cleveland, without showing a named landmark or public event.
Research note: People and recognizable faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 8mm Cleveland home movie, snowy Ohio street, 1930s winter pedestrians, vintage cars in snow, and candid family portrait footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent scenes from the same reel, then other 1939 Cleveland material, then broader 1930s winter street and family home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Cleveland home-movie footage, a man in a dark overcoat and fedora walks near a snow-covered sidewalk. — A man in a fedora and dark coat walks outdoors in winter conditions.

A snowy Cleveland street scene shows period cars, bare trees, and a bundled pedestrian near a sign post. — Period automobiles line a snow-covered street as a pedestrian stands near the curb.

The frame shows a winter Cleveland street with snowbanks, late-1930s cars, bare trees, and low buildings in the background. — Snow, bare trees, and parked automobiles define the winter street view.

A smiling adult couple appears in a close home-movie portrait, with faces softly focused and warm indoor or doorway light. — A couple smiles toward the camera in a close personal portrait.

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