Cleveland Ohio USA-1939: Six Women Working in Factory Office with Sewing Devices

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

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Six Women Working in Factory Office with Sewing Devices — Clip Details

CLEVELAND OHIO USA-1939: This vintage 8mm home movie captures a bustling factory office where several women work at desks with early office devices. The dimly lit room features yellow-tinted walls and rows of workstations, with clothing racks visible in the background, suggesting a garment manufacturing environment. Women in period-appropriate attire are focused on their tasks, some seated at desks while others stand, handling documents and equipment. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century industrial workplaces. The camera remains mostly static, observing the daily routine with a documentary feel, ideal for historical or editorial projects exploring women's roles in 1930s industry.

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: 124600709

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s Cleveland industrial workplace requests needing brief editorial footage of women in a factory office or garment-related backroom setting.
Period detail: The desks, task lamps, paper handling, clothing racks and period dress may show a late-1930s factory office tied to garment production or sewing-related work.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an observational home-movie view of women concentrating on routine desk work, with no obvious staging for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include women at desks, papers, desk lamps, office devices, clothing racks, chairs, dark worktables and yellow-green interior walls.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure and warm color shift that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, workplace cutaway, transition beat or visual evidence of women doing clerical and production-adjacent labor.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for women working inside an industrial office environment, while the exact employer and tasks remain unidentified.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed in addition to any copyright or collection licensing checks.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1930s Cleveland factory office, women at work, garment factory desks, vintage 8mm workplace and industrial office home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Cleveland 1939 material, then broader 1930s women-at-work or garment-industry office scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Cleveland, Ohio, 1939, women work at desks in a dim factory office with papers, desk lamps and clothing racks in the background. — Women work at desks inside a dim factory office with clothing racks behind them.

A seated woman handles papers at a desk while another woman stands nearby in the 1939 Cleveland factory office scene. — A seated worker handles papers while another stands beside the desk.

Several women are visible among desks, lamps and clothing racks in a Cleveland factory office identified by metadata as 1939. — Workers occupy desks in a garment-related factory office setting.

A wider view of the Cleveland factory office shows rows of desks, bright task lamps, clothing racks and women working at the right edge. — A wider office view shows rows of desks, task lamps and clothing racks.

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