New York USA-1939: Man at Desk and Women Filing Papers in Office

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

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Man at Desk and Women Filing Papers in Office — Clip Details

NEW YORK USA-1939: A man in a suit sits at a cluttered desk in a vintage office, surrounded by papers and a typewriter, with large windows and a framed portrait on the wall. The scene shifts to two women in a filing room, one standing and smiling while adjusting her hair, the other seated and laughing, both in period-appropriate attire. Shot on 8mm film, this archival footage captures the daily work life and camaraderie of office workers in the late 1930s, with authentic film grain and a nostalgic, documentary feel.

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: 124762741

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: Useful for 1930s New York office-work sequences needing everyday business interiors, clerical labor, or workplace camaraderie in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The desks, typewriter, paper files, filing cabinets, framed wall portrait, and women's dresses may show late-1930s office routines and clerical spaces.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves informal workplace behavior, with a seated man at a desk and two women smiling, laughing, and adjusting hair in a filing room.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a cluttered desk, papers, typewriter, large windows, framed wall art, filing cabinets, a standing woman, and a seated laughing woman.
Film character: The 8mm footage has high-contrast black-and-white texture, visible grain, soft focus, and slight exposure variation consistent with small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an office-life insert, clerical work cutaway, workplace transition, or brief human moment in a broader 1930s urban sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually situates office labor around paper records, desks, and filing systems while showing social ease among workers in an interior workplace.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed separately from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1930s New York office footage, 8mm clerical workers, vintage filing room, women office workers, and man at desk archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then New York 1939 interiors, then broader themes of office work, paperwork, filing, and workplace social life.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1939 New York office interior, a man in a suit sits at a desk covered with papers, with windows and framed wall art behind him. — A man sits at a paper-covered desk in a vintage office interior.

In a New York office filing room, one woman stands near filing cabinets while another seated woman smiles at the lower right. — Two women share a light moment beside rows of office filing cabinets.

A standing woman adjusts her hair in front of filing cabinets while a seated woman watches in the office filing room. — A woman adjusts her hair while another sits beside the filing cabinets.

A smiling woman gestures toward the camera as another woman laughs seated beside filing cabinets in the 1939 New York office scene. — Two women laugh and gesture in an informal office filing-room moment.

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