Utah USA-1939: Building A Town From Broken Boards

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationUtah, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Utah

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Building A Town From Broken Boards — Clip Details

UTAH USA-1939: A person in a green sweater and dark trousers uses a long wooden board to push or arrange numerous nails protruding from the ground in a rural, dirt-covered area. The footage, shot on 8mm film, captures a close-up of the hands and the makeshift tool, suggesting a makeshift construction or repair effort. The scene transitions to a wider view of a small mountain town with modest houses built into a hillside, featuring a vintage car and a gas pump, all rendered in the characteristic grain and color palette of 1930s home movie footage.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124763357

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1939 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Utah, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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 Utah rural construction, settlement, or small-town documentary sequences needing brief home-movie evidence of hands-on building work and hillside housing.
Period detail: The vintage automobile, roadside gas pump, modest hillside houses, clothing, and 8mm color rendering support the 1939 Utah setting given in the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged close view of a person handling a rough board and nails, followed by a practical roadside view of the town from a visitor or family camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a hand, dark trousers, a long wooden board, protruding nails, bare dirt, scattered rocks, hillside houses, a vintage car, and a roadside gas pump.
Film character: The footage has handheld 8mm texture, soft focus, dense grain, uneven exposure, and slight frame-edge darkness that read as original home-movie film character.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a cutaway for improvised building labor, a transition from close manual work to town context, or a short memory beat of rural Utah life.
Historical context: The scene may show small-scale construction or repair activity near a mountain town, with modest buildings and roadside services indicating a rural community setting.
Research note: People are visible but not clearly identifiable here; copyright, likeness, and any property concerns should be reviewed separately before publication or commercial use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Utah 8mm home movie, rural town construction, wooden boards and nails, hillside houses, vintage car, and small mountain town footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Utah 1939 town views, then with rural construction, repair work, or Depression-era small-town themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Utah home-movie frame showing a hand and dark trousers beside a long board laid over nails in bare dirt. — A hand steadies a rough wooden board across nails in a dirt-covered work area.

Close 8mm view of a wooden board and clustered protruding nails or thin stakes in dirt, with part of a person at left. — The board is pushed or positioned across a cluster of nails in the ground.

Close Utah 1939 frame of a rough board, disturbed dirt, rocks, and the edge of a person working nearby. — A rough board spans a rocky dirt surface during the close-up work sequence.

Wider 1939 Utah view of modest hillside houses, a vintage car, utility poles, and a roadside gas pump. — The scene opens to a small hillside town with houses, a car, and roadside fuel equipment.

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