Sacramento California-1937: Man in Blue Shirt Lowers Wooden Beam in Orchard

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Year1937
Decade1930s
LocationSacramento, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1937 Sacramento California

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Man in Blue Shirt Lowers Wooden Beam in Orchard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage home movie captures a man in a blue shirt and brown trousers working outdoors in Sacramento, California. He carefully lowers a long, cylindrical wooden beam onto a stone foundation, assisted by another worker in a light-colored uniform. The scene unfolds in a sunny orchard with rows of trees and green grass, showcasing mid-20th century manual labor and construction techniques. The footage features natural film grain and color fading typical of archival Super 8 home movies.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127255405

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: 1937 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Sacramento, California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1937 Sacramento 8mm clip supports documentary or educational requests for Depression-era California orchard labor and small-scale outdoor construction.
Period detail: The men's work clothes, simple tools, stone supports, and orchard setting may show rural California manual building practices in the late 1930s.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie feel, observing workers handling a long wooden beam without posing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two adult men, a long wooden beam, stone foundation blocks, a small red machine, rows of orchard trees, grass, and bright sun.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm color texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight fading, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet gate edges.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, process insert, or memory beat for rural labor, orchard life, or hands-on construction.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for outdoor work in an orchard landscape, with people, tools, and materials shown at a modest worksite.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or audible music are indicated, but copyright and location rights remain separate checks.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1937 Sacramento orchard work, 1930s California home movie, 8mm manual labor, and wooden beam construction footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Sacramento 1937 material, then broader 1930s orchard or manual construction scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1937 Sacramento home-movie footage, two adult men stand near orchard rows while handling a long wooden beam at a small outdoor worksite. — Workers position a long wooden beam beside stone supports in an orchard setting.

A worker in a blue shirt bends over a long wooden beam in a Sacramento orchard scene, with another adult partly visible nearby. — A man bends to guide or adjust the beam at the orchard worksite.

The beam lies across the foreground at the Sacramento orchard worksite, with stone supports, a dark box-like structure, grass, and tree rows beyond. — The beam extends across the work area after being lowered near the foundation.

A static view of the 1937 Sacramento orchard worksite shows the long beam across the foreground and rows of trees beyond. — The camera holds on the lowered beam and surrounding orchard rows.

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