Sacramento California-1937: Older Men Lifting Wooden Beam in Orchard

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

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Older Men Lifting Wooden Beam in Orchard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage home movie captures three men working together outdoors in Sacramento, California. Dressed in hats and practical clothing, they lift and maneuver a large wooden beam, likely part of a construction or repair project. The scene unfolds in a leafless orchard or rural setting, with bare trees and scattered lumber visible. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, conveying a sense of authentic, everyday labor from the era. This archival clip offers a glimpse into mid-20th century manual work and community effort.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127256729

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 California home-movie requests needing rural manual labor, orchard work, or small-scale construction cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The hats, work clothes, 8mm color stock, and leafless orchard setting support a late-1930s rural Sacramento context, while the exact project remains unidentified.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of people cooperating on a practical outdoor task, with casual movement and no visible performance for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include three men, brimmed hats, a long wooden beam, scattered lumber, bare orchard trees, work clothes, and a handheld home-movie viewpoint.
Film character: The footage carries soft 8mm grain, faded color, mild blur, and uneven exposure that read as original small-gauge home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, rural labor cutaway, family-memory beat, or transition into a sequence about hands-on work and local life.
Historical context: The scene shows everyday cooperative labor in an orchard or rural yard, suggesting informal repair or construction without identifying the property or project.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or audible music are indicated, and copyright clearance is separate from personal or property rights.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under 1930s 8mm home movie, Sacramento orchard labor, men lifting wooden beam, rural California work, or vintage construction cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent scenes from the same reel, then other Sacramento 1937 footage, then broader 1930s rural labor or orchard work clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Sacramento home-movie footage from 1937, men in work clothes appear to lift or steady a long wooden beam in an orchard setting. — Men work together around a wooden beam in a leafless orchard.

Two men in hats stand beside a large angled wooden beam in the Sacramento orchard scene, with lumber visible on the ground. — Men reposition a large wooden beam outdoors.

A man in a hat bends near boards and a wooden beam while another man stands nearby in the 1937 Sacramento orchard footage. — A worker bends near boards as another man watches the beam.

The final frame shows men continuing to handle lumber and a beam in the Sacramento orchard setting, filmed in soft faded 8mm color. — Men continue the outdoor beam-lifting task among orchard trees.

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