Birmingham Alabama-1957: Man Wearing Grey Shirt Cuts Material With Small Silver Tool

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

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Man Wearing Grey Shirt Cuts Material With Small Silver Tool — Clip Details

A man in a grey shirt kneels on a carpeted floor in a dimly lit room, cutting material with a small silver tool. The space features wood-paneled walls and a cluttered workbench, with a wooden box and scattered debris nearby. Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this home movie captures a quiet, domestic moment of manual labor. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and a handheld perspective, evoking a sense of personal history and mid-century Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
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: 124931437

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 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 domestic labor, home repair, or manual craft inserts in documentary, museum, education, or period commercial edits.
Period detail: The wood-paneled interior, workbench, simple hand tool, and carpeted room may show mid-century household work space details in Birmingham, Alabama.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie view of a man kneeling and concentrating on a small cutting task inside a private room.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a kneeling man, grey shirt, small silver tool, cut material, wood paneling, workbench, wooden box, and scattered debris.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, slight color fading, and handheld framing consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, memory beat, domestic-work insert, or transition into a mid-century home interior sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for informal household repair or craft activity in a private mid-century interior without identifying the task beyond what is visible.
Research note: People and private property are visible, so likeness, privacy, and property considerations should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Search matches include 1950s 8mm home movie man cutting material indoors, Birmingham Alabama domestic work footage, and mid-century home workshop interior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Birmingham 1957 interiors, then broader 1950s home repair or manual labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Birmingham home-movie frame showing a wood-paneled interior with a workbench, chair, scattered floor debris, and visible film framing. — Wood-paneled room with a workbench and scattered material on the floor.

1957 Birmingham home-movie frame of a private wood-paneled room with a workbench, chair, floor debris, and bright diagonal film flare. — Private interior with workbench and bright diagonal film flare.

1957 Birmingham home-movie frame showing a man in a grey shirt kneeling on carpet and using a small silver tool near a wooden box. — Man kneels on the floor and cuts material with a small hand tool.

1957 Birmingham home-movie frame of a man kneeling in a private room, working with a small tool beside cut scraps and a wooden box. — Kneeling man continues a small cutting or repair task on the floor.

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