Birmingham Alabama-1957: Man Installing Roof Shingles On House

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationBirmingham, Alabama, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Birmingham Alabama

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Man Installing Roof Shingles On House — Clip Details

A man in a blue plaid shirt and cap works on a roof in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1957. Shot on 8mm film, the footage shows him climbing a ladder to the roof and then kneeling to install shingles with a hammer. The house has a dark exterior with white-trimmed windows, and the scene is set in a wooded area. The film exhibits natural grain and color shifts typical of vintage home movies, capturing a moment of manual labor and home improvement during the mid-20th century.

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: 124931092

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: Yes
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 1068 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: home construction 909 landale rd., jh wisdom
Reel-level year note: 1957
Reel-level location note: birmingham alabama
Date: 1957 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: Birmingham, Alabama, 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 1950s home-improvement, residential construction, manual labor, and Birmingham-area domestic life inserts in documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The dark-sided house, white-trimmed windows, ladder, work clothes, and hand tools may show mid-century residential repair or construction practices.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value as the camera observes a man doing practical roof work rather than posing for a formal scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark house exterior, white window trim, a ladder, trees, roof shingles, a kneeling worker, a cap, and a hammer.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows visible grain, color shifts, soft focus, exposure variation, and slight handheld framing typical of vintage home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, labor insert, household maintenance beat, or transition within a mid-century domestic sequence.
Historical context: The footage places residential hand labor in a wooded home setting, showing everyday maintenance work rather than a formal commercial job site.
Research note: A person and possible signage or branding are visible, so likeness, trademark, and property context should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Researcher searches may include 1957 Birmingham Alabama home movie, 1950s roofing work, man installing shingles, 8mm house repair, and mid-century construction.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then Birmingham 1957 material, then related 1950s home repair, construction, and manual labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Birmingham, Alabama 1957 home-movie frame showing a dark house exterior, ladder, white-trimmed windows, and tree trunks. — A ladder rests against a dark-sided house with white-trimmed windows and trees in the foreground.

Birmingham, Alabama 1957 frame of the house exterior, with a ladder near white-trimmed windows and trees partly blocking the view. — The camera frames the house front through trees, with a ladder positioned near the windows.

Birmingham, Alabama 1957 frame showing a man in a blue plaid shirt and cap kneeling on a roof while working with shingles. — A man kneels on the roof surface beside roofing materials during shingle work.

Birmingham, Alabama 1957 frame of a man kneeling on a shingled roof, holding a hand tool while installing or adjusting roofing material. — The worker uses a hand tool while kneeling among shingles and roofing pieces.

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