Sacramento California-1937: Two Men Building A Structure In A Peach Orchard

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

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Two Men Building A Structure In A Peach Orchard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage home movie captures two men working in a peach orchard in Sacramento, California. Dressed in light-colored shirts and dark trousers, they bend over a concrete foundation, using shovels and tools to construct a structure. The scene unfolds under a blue-tinted filter, with bare trees and dirt ground visible in the background. The footage shows natural, unscripted labor, offering a glimpse into mid-20th century rural life and manual construction.

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: 127256211

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: No
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: 1930s California home-movie footage for documentary edits needing rural labor, orchard construction, or Depression-era domestic work activity.
Period detail: The light shirts, work trousers, hand tools, bare orchard rows, and small concrete foundation may show practical rural building work in the late 1930s.
Home-movie behavior: The men appear focused on ordinary manual work, giving the scene an unstaged home-movie record of shared labor rather than a posed construction view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two adult men, shovels, a concrete slab or footing, upright posts, dirt piles, bare orchard trees, and a blue-tinted 8mm frame.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm focus, visible grain, blue color cast, slight exposure variation, and a contact-print feel that supports its archival home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, labor insert, rural transition, or memory beat for orchard life and small-scale building work.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for everyday outdoor work in a Sacramento-area orchard setting without proving the purpose of the structure being built.
Research note: People are visible and likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, but copyright, location, and any property questions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s 8mm Sacramento orchard work, California peach orchard construction, men building concrete foundation, and vintage home movie labor.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Sacramento 1937 footage, then clips of California orchards, home construction, hand-tool work, or rural family labor.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two adult men work with shovels beside a small concrete foundation in a Sacramento orchard, filmed on blue-tinted 8mm home movie footage. — Two men work around a concrete footing among orchard rows.

In the orchard setting, two men lean over the edge of a concrete slab or footing while working with shovels and other tools. — The workers lean toward the slab as they continue the construction task.

Two adult men in light shirts and dark trousers work near a concrete foundation, with bare orchard trees visible behind them. — The men stand at the edge of the foundation during the orchard work scene.

One man holds a shovel beside the concrete footing while the second man bends over the work area in the Sacramento orchard scene. — One worker shovels while the other bends over the foundation area.

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