New York USA-1939: Man Conducts Work In Office With Period Details

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 New York

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Man Conducts Work In Office With Period Details — Clip Details

A man in a light-colored shirt and tie sits at a desk in a dimly lit office, filmed on 8mm film in 1939. Shot in black and white with visible grain, the footage captures him working at a desk near large windows overlooking city buildings. The scene transitions to a darker room where he stands near a doorway, with a wall clock and vintage fan visible. The final frames show him facing the camera, his face partially illuminated. This authentic home movie captures a moment of mid-century American office life with a nostalgic, documentary feel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: InteriorBlack & 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: 124762437

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 1676 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: jane
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: new york,washington
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: New York, 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: Supports requests for late-1930s New York office interiors, clerical work, or business-life cutaways for documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: Visible clues include a dark office, large sash windows, wall clock, wall fan, desk surfaces, light shirt and tie, and city buildings beyond the windows.
Home-movie behavior: The man appears to work and then stand near a doorway with minimal posing, giving the clip the observational feel of a private 8mm office record.
What appears in frame: The frames show a seated man at a desk, large windows, city exteriors, a standing man in shirt and tie, a wall clock, a wall fan, door trim, and dim interior walls.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture gives the scene heavy grain, soft focus, high window contrast, and shadowed faces consistent with available-light home-movie filming.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief office-life insert, transition into workplace material, or reflective cutaway for urban business routines and memory sequences.
Historical context: The clip visually situates office work within a modest urban interior, with period furnishings and window light suggesting everyday professional space rather than a staged workplace.
Research note: People, private interior space, and possible posted signage or brand marks are visible, so likeness, property, trademark, and copyright review should be handled separately.
Research search match: Useful search language includes 1939 New York office home movie, 1930s man at desk, black-and-white 8mm workplace interior, and vintage urban office cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel office or interior shots, then with New York 1939 material, and then with broader 1930s American work, desk, and city-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 New York home-movie footage, a man sits at a desk in a shadowed office while city buildings show through large windows. — A seated office worker is silhouetted against broad windows overlooking nearby buildings.

A shadowed 1939 New York office interior shows a standing man near a bright window, with wall-mounted fixtures partly visible. — A man stands in deep shadow near the office window and doorway area.

A man in a light shirt and tie stands inside a dim New York office, with a wall clock, wall fan, and doorway visible behind him. — The office worker stands near a doorway as a clock and wall fan appear in the background.

In the final office frame, the man faces the camera in partial light, with a wall clock, bright window, and framed wall item behind him. — The man faces the camera, partly illuminated against the dim office wall and window light.

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