New York USA-1939: Woman On The Phone Standing By The Window

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

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Woman On The Phone Standing By The Window — Clip Details

A woman in a 1930s-style dress stands by a large window in a dimly lit room, talking on a vintage rotary telephone. Shot on 8mm film, the grainy black-and-white footage captures her silhouette against the cityscape outside, where buildings and a prominent sign are visible. The scene evokes a sense of quiet domestic life and mid-century urban atmosphere, with the woman appearing focused and engaged in her conversation. This authentic home movie clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into everyday life in New York during the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124762496

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 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 1930s urban domestic-life requests needing a brief New York home-movie scene of a woman using a telephone by a window.
Period detail: The rotary-style handset, dress silhouette, black-and-white stock, and city view may show late-1930s interior and communications details consistent with the 1939 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The woman appears absorbed in a phone call, giving the clip unstaged value as a quiet everyday moment filmed from inside the room.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in silhouette, a wall telephone or handset, tall windows, window shades, a city rooftop view, and a bright exterior sign.
Film character: The 8mm black-and-white footage has strong grain, high window contrast, soft focus, and slight exposure variation that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short insert, domestic cutaway, telephone-call beat, or transition into a New York urban memory sequence.
Historical context: The scene places a private interior action against a city skyline, linking household communication with dense urban surroundings without identifying the building or sign.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and location context should be reviewed separately from any underlying footage copyright status.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1939 New York woman on telephone, 1930s home movie phone call, black-and-white 8mm interior window, and vintage urban domestic life.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with New York 1939 material, then with 1930s interiors, telephone use, or urban household scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 New York home-movie footage, a woman stands near a large window with a telephone handset against a bright city view. — Woman silhouetted at a window during a phone call.

A woman in a dim interior holds a telephone by a tall window, with New York buildings visible outside. — Telephone call framed against the city outside.

The woman remains near the window with the telephone receiver, partly silhouetted against the exterior cityscape. — Woman adjusts or holds the receiver during the call.

Near the end of the clip, the woman holds the telephone beside the window, with rooftops and a bright exterior sign behind her. — Woman on the telephone beside a city-facing window.

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