Sacramento California-1937: Men Work With Machinery On A Bright Sunny Day

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

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Men Work With Machinery On A Bright Sunny Day — Clip Details

SACRAMENTO CALIFORNIA-1937: Men operate a large red industrial drilling rig on a grassy outdoor site under a bright blue sky. A worker in a light-colored shirt crouches near the machine, while another man in a blue shirt and hat stands by the equipment. The 8mm film captures the scene with natural color and grain, showing the machinery's components, a spare tire, and a barrel. The footage documents manual labor and industrial work from the 1930s, offering authentic archival material for historical or nostalgic projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127255558

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

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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: Useful for 1930s Sacramento industrial labor sequences, documentary inserts, museum displays, or education edits needing real 8mm footage of men working around outdoor machinery.
Period detail: The red drilling rig, work clothes, spare tire, barrel, and open grassy site may show Depression-era field or utility work as captured in 1937 home-movie footage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie feel, observing workers from a short distance as one crouches near the rig and another stands by the equipment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red drilling rig, spare tire, ladder-like frame, barrel, crouching worker, standing worker, grassy ground, trees, and bright sky.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that preserve the texture of original color home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief industrial labor cutaway, period transition, machinery insert, or memory beat within a 1930s California sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually places manual work and heavy equipment in an outdoor Sacramento setting without identifying the exact job site or company beyond what appears on the machinery.
Research note: People and a visible sign or logo require review for likeness, trademark, and contextual use, while copyright and property clearance should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1937 Sacramento 8mm industrial work, vintage drilling rig home movie, 1930s California labor footage, and men operating machinery outdoors.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel work scenes, then other 1937 Sacramento material, then related 1930s California labor, machinery, vehicle, and outdoor industrial footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1937 Sacramento home-movie footage, a worker crouches near a red industrial rig with a visible sign, spare tire, barrel, and trees behind it. — A crouching worker appears beside the red machinery on a grassy outdoor site.

A man stands near the right side of the red industrial rig in the Sacramento 1937 footage, with a spare tire, barrel, trees, and grass visible. — The worker stands beside the rig as its tire, frame, and nearby barrel remain in view.

The 1937 Sacramento frame shows the red rig and spare tire with a standing worker at right and a partially visible crouching figure at left. — Two workers are partly visible around the red industrial machine in the outdoor scene.

A worker bends near a long pipe or beam beside the red rig in 1937 Sacramento footage, with the spare tire, upright frame, grass, trees, and sky visible. — The worker bends near the equipment as the machinery fills the left side of the frame.

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