Cleveland Ohio USA-1939: Office Workers In Period Attire Working At Wooden Desks

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

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Office Workers In Period Attire Working At Wooden Desks — Clip Details

CLEVELAND OHIO USA-1939: Office workers in period attire operate typewriters and manage paperwork at wooden desks in a bustling mid-century office. Women in blouses and men in suits and ties work at their stations, with one man in a light blue shirt leaning over a desk to speak with a colleague. The scene, shot on 8mm film, features warm, slightly faded colors and visible grain, capturing the authentic atmosphere of a 1930s American workplace. A bright red leather chair adds a pop of color to the vintage setting, while the handheld camera movement provides an intimate, documentary-style view of daily office life.

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: 124600743

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

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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 American office-workplace requests needing real 8mm footage of clerical staff, desks, paperwork, and business attire for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: Visible period clues include wooden desks, paper files, typewriter-era office work, suits, ties, blouses, and a bright red upholstered desk chair in a prewar workplace setting.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld camera observes staff at work from inside the room, giving the scene an informal, visitor-level view rather than a staged corporate portrait.
What appears in frame: The clip shows office workers, wooden desks, paperwork, desk lamps, stacked trays, a red chair, suits and blouses, and a small office machine or typewriter area.
Film character: The 8mm scan has warm faded color, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and slight handheld movement that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief workplace insert, office cutaway, transition into clerical labor, or memory beat for prewar urban business life.
Historical context: The footage visually documents office routines and gendered clerical work patterns in a Cleveland workplace without identifying the employer or individuals shown.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so copyright, likeness, and property permissions should be reviewed separately before publication or commercial use.
Research search match: Searches for 1939 Cleveland office workers, 1930s American workplace, clerical staff at desks, typewriter-era paperwork, and 8mm office home movie may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Cleveland 1939 interiors, then broader 1930s office, clerical labor, and business-attire scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Cleveland office interior with workers at wooden desks, paperwork, and warm 8mm film color. — Office staff work at desks under desk lamps, with papers spread across the work surfaces.

Cleveland office scene with a man leaning beside a wooden desk, red upholstered chair, and woman working behind him. — A man leans over a desk near a red office chair while another worker continues paperwork behind him.

1939 Cleveland office interior showing suited men near a desk and a woman working with papers in the background. — Two men stand beside the desk area as a woman continues office work behind a red chair.

Cleveland office frame with a suited man crossing by a paper-covered desk, red chair, and small office machine. — A suited man moves through the office beside a desk stacked with papers and equipment.

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