Sacramento California-1937: Workers Constructing Wooden Framework

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

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Workers Constructing Wooden Framework — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage home movie captures workers constructing a wooden framework in Sacramento, California. Men in period attire, including hats and work clothes, collaborate on a large wooden structure, using ladders and tools. The footage shows them positioning beams and securing the frame, set against a backdrop of bare trees and a rural landscape. The blue-tinted, grainy image reflects the era's film stock, offering authentic archival footage of early 20th-century construction work.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127256609

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: Useful for 1930s Sacramento-area construction, labor, and home-movie sequences needing brief documentary cutaways of workers assembling a large wooden frame.
Period detail: The clip shows men in hats and work clothes using ladders and hand-positioned lumber, details consistent with the 1937 home-movie metadata but not enough to identify the structure.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a casual distance as workers move around the frame, giving the scene an unstaged home-movie view of practical labor in progress.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large timber frame, ladders, diagonal braces, workers in hats, stacked lumber or beams, bare trees, grass, and a rural background.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, blue cast, heavy grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve the physical texture of a scanned home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or contextual cutaway for Depression-era labor, vernacular building, or memory-based Sacramento sequences.
Historical context: The scene visually places construction work in an open outdoor setting with simple tools and coordinated manual handling rather than mechanized equipment visible in frame.
Research note: People are visible but not individually identifiable in detail; review likeness, copyright, and any property context separately before publication or commercial use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1937 8mm construction workers, Sacramento home movie building frame, vintage labor footage, and 1930s wooden framework assembly.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Sacramento 1937 material, then broader 1930s construction, labor, and rural building footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 Sacramento home-movie frame showing workers around a large wooden structure with ladders, braces, and bare trees behind it. — Workers position themselves around a timber frame during outdoor construction.

A worker in period work clothes stands by the wooden frame as ladders and braces fill the Sacramento construction scene. — A worker stands beside the large frame, with ladders and bracing visible.

A hat-wearing worker moves along the base of the large wooden framework in the 1937 Sacramento home-movie footage. — A worker crosses near the base of the framed structure and stacked materials.

A worker bends at the base of the wooden construction frame while another figure is partly visible at the edge of the 1937 Sacramento scene. — A worker bends near the structure as the frame and ladders dominate the view.

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