Sacramento California-1937: Working Men Pouring Concrete Foundation in Orchard

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

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Working Men Pouring Concrete Foundation in Orchard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage home movie captures two men working outdoors in Sacramento, California. One man stands holding a shovel while the other bends over a freshly poured concrete foundation. The scene unfolds in a leafless orchard with bare trees in the background, under a cool blue-tinted light. The footage shows the construction of a small structure, with wooden posts set in the wet concrete. The grainy, blue-tinged quality of the Super 8 film adds to its authentic mid-century feel.

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: 127256144

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

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: 1930s California home-movie footage for productions needing a brief view of outdoor concrete work and small-scale construction in an orchard setting.
Period detail: The clip may show 1930s work clothing, hand tools, exposed wooden posts, and a freshly poured slab among bare orchard trees in Sacramento.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual home-movie observation of two men working without staging, one standing with a shovel while another bends near the wet concrete.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two adult men, a shovel, wet concrete, upright wooden posts, a low foundation edge, bare orchard trees, and blue-tinted film exposure.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, cool blue color shift, uneven exposure, and handheld framing consistent with original home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, cutaway, or memory beat for Depression-era labor, rural building work, or family property improvements.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for small-scale manual construction in a California orchard, without enough evidence to identify the structure or workers.
Research note: People are visible but not identifiable in detail; copyright, likeness, and any property considerations should be reviewed before commercial use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1937 Sacramento 8mm home movie concrete work, men pouring foundation in orchard, and Depression-era California construction footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Sacramento or 1937 California material, then broader orchard, hand labor, or construction themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 Sacramento home-movie frame showing two men beside a freshly poured concrete foundation among bare orchard trees. — Two men work around a wet concrete slab with upright posts in the orchard background.

In the Sacramento orchard scene, one man stands with a shovel as another bends over the edge of the wet foundation. — One worker stands with a shovel while another works near the freshly poured foundation.

Blue-tinted 8mm frame from Sacramento showing a man at the edge of a concrete foundation with orchard trees beyond. — A worker stands near the edge of the concrete slab as posts set in the foundation line the frame.

Late frame of the 1937 Sacramento home movie, focused on the wet foundation, upright posts, and orchard background. — The foundation and posts remain in view as a worker stands partly outside the frame.

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