Cleveland Ohio USA-1939: Women Working In An Office During The 1930's Showing

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

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Women Working In An Office During The 1930's Showing — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a quiet street scene in Cleveland, Ohio. A maroon classic car is parked near a yellow "NO PARKING" pole, with other period automobiles and a truck visible in the background. The scene transitions to an office interior where women in 1930s-style clothing work at desks under warm, dim lighting. The footage exhibits natural film grain and slight blurriness, characteristic of amateur Super 8 recordings from the era. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century American life, suitable for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 124600704

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: Yes
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 street and office-life requests needing brief archival cutaways of period cars, desk work, and women in a workplace setting.
Period detail: The frames show late-1930s-style automobiles, a no-parking pole, office desks, paper files, and clothing that supports the supplied 1939 home-movie dating.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational quality of a home movie, moving from a street view through a window-like obstruction into an office where women work at desks.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include parked period cars, a truck, a yellow no-parking pole, street pavement, office desks, papers, lamps, and women working indoors.
Film character: The 8mm film look includes soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, slight frame instability, and contact-sheet edge darkness that add archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short transition from exterior city street life to an interior workplace or as a memory beat about office labor.
Historical context: The footage visually connects urban automobile streetscape with clerical office work, showing everyday social and work environments rather than a staged event.
Research note: People and possible signage are visible, so likeness, trademark, and location-use considerations should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Cleveland 8mm home movie, 1930s office women working, period cars on city street, and archival American workplace footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then Cleveland or 1939 street scenes, then broader 1930s workplace, office, and period automobile footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Cleveland street view with period automobiles, a distant truck, and a yellow no-parking pole seen through dark vertical edges. — Parked cars and a no-parking pole on a Cleveland street.

A 1939 Cleveland street scene shows a maroon period car near a yellow no-parking pole with other automobiles and a truck behind it. — Period automobiles parked near a marked no-parking pole.

Soft 8mm view of a Cleveland street in 1939 with parked automobiles, a truck, open pavement, and dark frame edges from the camera position. — Street and parked cars seen from a partially obstructed viewpoint.

1939 office interior in Cleveland with women working at desks under dim light, surrounded by papers, lamps, chairs, and dark office furniture. — Women work at desks in a dimly lit office interior.

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