Cleveland Ohio-1937: Vintage Marching Band Parade With Soldiers In Bearskin Hats

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Year1937
Decade1930s
LocationCleveland, Ohio, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Cleveland Ohio

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Vintage Marching Band Parade With Soldiers In Bearskin Hats — Clip Details

CLEVELAND OHIO-1937: A vintage 8mm film captures a marching band parade on a city street. Soldiers in distinctive uniforms with tall black bearskin hats and white collars march in formation, followed by a brass band with trombones and tubas. The scene is set against a backdrop of 1930s buildings and classic automobiles, with a man in a white uniform leading the procession. The footage exhibits the characteristic grain and slight instability of home movie film, offering a nostalgic glimpse into a public event from the era.

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: 125778836

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: Yes

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 1001 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1937-1938-1939
Reel-level location note: Cleveland
Date: 1937 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: Cleveland, Ohio, 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 1930s editorial or documentary sequences needing Cleveland street parade footage with uniformed marchers, brass band musicians, and period automobiles.
Period detail: The clip shows 1930s dress cues, tall bearskin-style hats, formal band uniforms, storefront signs, dense city buildings, and rounded prewar automobiles on an urban street.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld view from street level gives the parade an observer-shot home-movie feel, with marchers passing close to the camera amid spectators and traffic.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include uniformed marchers in tall hats, white shoulder collars, brass band members, trombones, a tuba, a white-uniformed leader, parked cars, and city storefronts.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft black-and-white contrast, visible grain, gate edge shadows, exposure fluctuation, and slight handheld instability that read as period home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, parade transition, civic-event cutaway, or memory beat establishing public ceremony and street life in the late 1930s.
Historical context: The footage documents a formal public procession in Cleveland with military-style uniforms and a brass band, but the exact organization or occasion is not identified in the frames.
Research note: People, faces, uniforms, signage, possible brands, and audible music require review; copyright status is separate from likeness, trademark, location, and music considerations.
Research search match: Searches this clip may match include 1937 Cleveland parade 8mm, 1930s marching band street footage, soldiers in bearskin hats, and vintage brass band procession.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Cleveland or 1937 street scenes, and then with broader 1930s parade, marching band, or civic ceremony footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 Cleveland parade view of uniformed marchers in tall dark hats and white collars moving away from the camera on a city street. — Marchers in tall hats move down the street as parked automobiles line the curb.

Uniformed parade marchers in tall hats continue through a Cleveland street scene with storefronts and parked 1930s automobiles. — The marching formation continues away from the camera along the urban street.

Street-level 1937 Cleveland parade frame showing marchers, a visible standard, spectators, and prewar automobiles in the roadway. — Marchers and a parade standard pass near rounded cars in the street.

A white-uniformed parade leader precedes brass band musicians with trombones and a tuba on a Cleveland city street in 1937. — A white-uniformed leader moves ahead of brass musicians in the parade.

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