Joliet Illinois USA-1941: Man in Uniform with Women in Dimly Lit Room

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Year1941
Decade1940s
LocationJoliet, Illinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1941 Joliet Illinois

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Man in Uniform with Women in Dimly Lit Room — Clip Details

JOLIET ILLINOIS USA-1941: A man in a white uniform and cap walks through a dimly lit room with rough walls, interacting with a woman in a dress who sits on a folding chair. Another woman in overalls stands nearby, observing. The grainy black and white 8mm film captures a candid moment of domestic life, with a second man briefly entering the frame. The scene exudes a raw, unposed quality typical of wartime home movies.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
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: 124603066

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 2070 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: cb hill jr
Reel-level year note: 1941
Reel-level location note: glencoe illinois
Date: 1941 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: Joliet, Illinois, 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 1940s home-movie requests needing an interior domestic or informal social moment in Joliet, Illinois, for documentary, museum, or education edits.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm footage, folding chairs, plain walls, work overalls, and white uniform may show an early-1940s informal indoor gathering.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unposed interaction as people shift, sit, and acknowledge one another in a small room rather than performing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include seated and standing adults, a white uniform and cap, overalls, folding chairs, rough interior walls, dark door frames, and handheld framing.
Film character: The clip has a grainy black-and-white 8mm texture with soft focus, high contrast, uneven exposure, and contact-print-like frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for wartime-era domestic life, work clothing, or candid interior social scenes.
Historical context: The scene suggests a modest indoor setting where adults gather casually, but the footage does not identify the occasion or relationships among them.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property permissions may need review separate from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1941 Joliet Illinois home movie, black-and-white 8mm interior, man in white uniform, women seated indoors, and candid wartime-era footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other Joliet 1941 clips, then related 1940s interiors, uniforms, folding-chair gatherings, or candid domestic footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a Joliet, Illinois 1941 home-movie frame, adults stand partly cropped in a dim interior beside a folding chair and plain wall. — Cropped adults stand near a folding chair inside a dim room.

A white-uniformed adult stands in a plain Joliet interior while a woman sits nearby beside a folding chair. — A white-uniformed figure stands near a seated woman and folding chair.

A seated woman in a Joliet 1941 interior faces the camera as standing adults pass near a folding chair and rough wall. — A seated woman faces the camera as others stand close by.

In the Joliet interior, a woman in overalls sits beside a folding chair while a white-uniformed adult leans or sits close to her. — A woman in overalls sits beside a folding chair with another adult nearby.

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