Birmingham Alabama-1957: Bricklayers Building A Wall On Scaffolding

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

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Bricklayers Building A Wall On Scaffolding — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this archival footage captures bricklayers at work on a construction site in Birmingham, Alabama. Workers in period-appropriate clothing, including a man in a red and white checkered shirt, lay bricks on a partially built wall. Stacks of red bricks and concrete blocks are arranged on wooden scaffolding. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film adds to the authentic vintage feel. This raw, unscripted home movie offers a glimpse into mid-century construction labor and industrial activity.

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: 124931548

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 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 requests needing 1950s Birmingham construction labor, masonry work, or mid-century building-site cutaways for documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The clothing, wooden scaffolding, concrete blocks, stacked red bricks, and 8mm color home-movie texture support a 1957 mid-century construction setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie viewpoint, watching workers from a fixed distance without staging, narration, or apparent camera direction.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include bricklayers, a red checkered shirt, stacked red bricks, concrete blocks, wooden scaffold planks, masonry tools, and a partially built wall.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, color fading, and slight handheld instability that read as original physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, labor-process cutaway, transition into construction history, or visual memory beat for urban work in the 1950s South.
Historical context: The scene documents manual masonry work and scaffold-based building activity in Birmingham without supporting claims about the specific project or site ownership.
Research note: People are visible and may require likeness review, while no logos or audible music are evident from supplied metadata; copyright and clearance should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1957 8mm Birmingham bricklayers, 1950s Alabama construction workers, masonry on scaffolding, and mid-century home-movie labor footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1957 Birmingham material, then broader 1950s construction, masonry, labor, or urban-industrial footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Birmingham construction scene with a bricklayer bending over stacked bricks and concrete blocks on wooden scaffolding. — A worker in a red checkered shirt handles masonry materials on a scaffolded wall.

1957 Birmingham masonry work with stacked bricks, concrete blocks, and a passing worker partly visible near the scaffold. — A bricklayer works at the wall as another figure moves through the foreground.

1957 Birmingham construction view with two workers, a red-shirted bricklayer, brick stacks, and concrete blocks on a scaffold. — Workers stand at a scaffolded masonry wall with stacks of bricks in front of them.

1957 Birmingham construction footage showing a bricklayer at a wall, stacked bricks, concrete blocks, and workers nearby. — The bricklayer faces the work area while another worker passes below the scaffold.

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