New York USA-1939: Women Prepares Food Mix At City Factory

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

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Women Prepares Food Mix At City Factory — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a gritty industrial cityscape in New York, with a towering factory chimney belching dark smoke over brick buildings. The scene transitions to a woman in a button-up blouse and apron preparing food in a kitchen, her hands mixing ingredients in a bowl. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, documentary-style view of mid-century urban life and domestic routine.

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: 124762842

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: This 1939 8mm New York clip can support archival requests for late-1930s urban industry, smoke-filled city views, and brief food-preparation labor or domestic routine inserts.
Period detail: The brick buildings, rooftop structures, tall smokestack, traffic signal, simple apron, and soft monochrome 8mm rendering may show late-1930s urban-industrial and kitchen work details.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie quality, moving from an observed city factory view to a candid woman mixing ingredients at a bowl.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a smoking factory chimney, multi-story brick and masonry buildings, rooftop tanks or vents, a street signal, a dim kitchen interior, a woman in an apron, and a mixing bowl.
Film character: The clip carries heavy 8mm grain, soft focus, gate-edge shadows, exposure fluctuation, scratches, and handheld framing that give it physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short industrial atmosphere insert, a transition from city exterior to food preparation, or a memory beat about everyday work in New York.
Historical context: The contrast between smoke over dense buildings and a woman preparing food indoors gives visual context for urban labor, household or facility routines, and industrial surroundings without identifying a specific site.
Research note: People are visible and likeness review may be needed, while no logos or brands are apparent; copyright, location, and any property or interior-use questions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1939 New York 8mm factory smoke, late 1930s city industrial footage, vintage food preparation woman mixing bowl, and home movie kitchen work.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1939 New York material, then with broader themes of urban industry, smoke pollution, food preparation, and women at work.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 New York 8mm frame showing a tall smokestack releasing dark smoke over brick and masonry city buildings. — Factory smoke over city rooftops.

1939 New York city view with a factory smokestack, drifting smoke, surrounding buildings, and visible 8mm frame-edge shadows. — Smokestack beside urban buildings.

1939 New York 8mm frame showing an industrial city block with brick buildings, a smokestack, rooftop details, and smoke near the chimney base. — Industrial block with chimney smoke.

1939 8mm interior frame showing a woman in a buttoned blouse and apron mixing ingredients in a bowl in a dim kitchen or workroom. — Woman mixing food in a bowl.

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