Sacramento California-1937: Two Men Building 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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Two Men Building Concrete Foundation in Orchard — Clip Details

SACRAMENTO CALIFORNIA-1937: Two men work together in a rural orchard, using tools to install a concrete foundation or post. Shot on 8mm film, the footage shows them in period clothing—one in a light shirt and dark pants, the other in a white sweater—bending over their task. The scene is set among bare trees, with a house visible in the background. The film exhibits a distinct blue color cast and grain typical of vintage home movies from the 1930s, capturing a moment of manual labor and community building.

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: 127256246

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s Sacramento home-movie footage suited to documentary requests for rural labor, small construction, orchard settings, and Depression-era everyday work.
Period detail: The clothing, hand tools, bare orchard rows, and simple concrete work may show late-1930s rural life consistent with the supplied 1937 Sacramento metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged observation of two men bending over a practical building task, filmed from a nearby home-movie vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two working men, a concrete slab or footing, upright posts, hand tools, bare orchard trees, open grass, and a small building edge.
Film character: The 8mm footage has a cool blue cast, soft focus, visible grain, exposure variation, and slight handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, rural labor cutaway, construction detail, or memory beat between wider Sacramento or orchard scenes.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for small-scale manual construction in an orchard setting without documenting a named project or public event.
Research note: People are visible and identification is uncertain, so likeness review may be needed separate from copyright and any property considerations.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s Sacramento orchard work, 8mm home movie concrete foundation, rural California labor, and men building outdoors.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel rural scenes, then Sacramento 1937 material, then orchard labor, home construction, and California agricultural life.

Still Frames From This Clip

In supplied 1937 Sacramento footage, two men work over a concrete footing or foundation among bare orchard trees. — Two men work together on a small concrete foundation in an orchard setting.

The camera frames the work area from farther back, showing a concrete slab, building edge, grass, hose, and orchard beyond. — Wider view of the rural work site with a slab, lawn, and orchard trees.

A quiet rural yard or orchard edge shows the concrete work area, small blocks, grass, and bare trees in the distance. — The camera lingers on the slab and surrounding orchard after the workers move out of view.

The final frame shows the slab or foundation area with a hose or pipe, orchard trees, and part of a nearby structure. — Concrete work area, hose, and orchard trees seen in the closing view.

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