New York USA-1939: Office Workers Communicating at Desk

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

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Office Workers Communicating at Desk — Clip Details

NEW YORK USA-1939: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a professional office interaction in the late 1930s. A woman in a dark suit stands at a desk, smiling as she speaks with a seated man in a suit. The scene shifts to show a man in a suit standing by a window, then leaning over a desk to review documents with a female secretary. The grainy black-and-white footage, with soft focus and natural window light, evokes a nostalgic, authentic office environment. The clip showcases classic mid-century work life, with period-appropriate clothing and a large filing cabinet in the background, offering authentic archival footage for historical or editorial projects.

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: 124762694

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 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: 1930s New York office footage suited to editorial requests for clerical work, workplace communication, and business interiors in archival productions.
Period detail: The clothing, desks, filing cabinets, papers, and window-lit office interior may show late-1930s professional workplace details supported by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal, observational view of adults speaking, leaning over paperwork, and moving through routine office interactions without staged presentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include suited office workers, a seated secretary, desks, papers, a typewriter-like office machine, filing cabinets, windows, and interior wall fixtures.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and window backlight consistent with a brief home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a workplace insert, clerical cutaway, communication beat, or transition into a sequence about office routines and administration.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for gendered office roles and desk-based clerical work, while avoiding claims beyond the visible interaction and supplied New York 1939 metadata.
Research note: People and a private office interior are visible, so likeness and property considerations may remain separate from copyright or footage licensing review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s office workers, New York clerical work, secretary at desk, business interior home movie, and 8mm workplace footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with New York 1939 material, and then with other office, secretary, desk work, or communication scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1939 New York office scene, a woman in dark clothing stands by a desk as a seated suited man faces paperwork near tall windows. — A woman stands at a desk while a seated office worker handles papers.

A suited man stands near a bright office window.

A man in a suit leans over a desk while a seated woman looks up, with filing cabinets and office papers visible behind them. — A suited man leans over a desk to confer with a seated woman.

A suited man bends over documents at a desk while a seated woman writes or reviews papers in the office interior. — Two office workers review papers at a desk beside filing cabinets.

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