Cleveland Ohio USA-1939: A Worker In Uniform Walks Down The Causeway Of An Industrial Warehouse

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

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A Worker In Uniform Walks Down The Causeway Of An... — Clip Details

A worker in a dark uniform walks through a dimly lit industrial warehouse in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1939. The 8mm home movie captures the gritty atmosphere of a mid-century factory floor, with fluorescent lights casting long shadows and other workers visible in the background. The footage shows a man moving purposefully down a concrete causeway, passing stacks of materials and machinery. The grainy, warm-toned film has a nostalgic quality, with slight motion blur and natural film artifacts typical of vintage Super 8 footage. This authentic archival clip offers a rare glimpse into American industrial labor during the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
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: 124600752

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 U.S. industrial labor sequences, especially documentary inserts needing a brief view of workers inside a Cleveland warehouse or factory setting.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1930s industrial interiors, with work uniforms, exposed columns, overhead strip lighting, stacked materials and heavy equipment visible in the frame.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged movement of workers through the space, with the camera observing ordinary activity rather than a formal industrial demonstration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include uniformed workers, concrete floor lanes, painted support columns, overhead lights, stacked frames or materials, machinery and dim warehouse depth.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, dense shadows, warm highlights, gate edges and light grain that give the brief scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, transition or short memory beat to establish industrial work, warehouse interiors or everyday labor before World War II.
Historical context: The scene places workers within a large indoor production or storage environment, showing labor and materials more than finished products or identifiable company details.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness and editorial-use review may be needed even where copyright status is separate from personal or property rights.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Cleveland 8mm factory footage, warehouse worker home movie, American industrial labor, and vintage uniformed worker interior scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Cleveland or 1939 material, then broader U.S. industrial, factory and warehouse work footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Cleveland footage, a uniformed worker moves down a shadowed warehouse causeway while other workers and materials appear behind him. — A worker walks through a dim warehouse aisle with other laborers and materials in the background.

A worker in a dark uniform walks past a painted support column in the Cleveland industrial interior, with machinery and materials set back in shadow. — The worker passes a painted column as the warehouse floor recedes into shadow.

The Cleveland warehouse scene shows a uniformed worker near a support column, with two other workers lower to the floor near materials and equipment. — A worker moves near a column while other workers handle materials farther back.

A later frame shows workers near stacked rectangular materials and a bright light source inside the same Cleveland industrial warehouse setting. — Workers appear beside stacked frames or materials under a bright light in the warehouse.

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