Sacramento California-1937: Men Wearing Hats and Plaid Shirts Place Wooden Boards on Ground

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

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Men Wearing Hats and Plaid Shirts Place Wooden Boards on... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage home movie captures three men working outdoors in Sacramento, California. Dressed in period-appropriate attire—plaid shirts, hats, and trousers—they handle wooden planks and rails in a leafless orchard or rural setting. The footage shows them lifting, positioning, and arranging lumber, suggesting construction or repair work. The scene is bathed in a cool, blue-tinted light, characteristic of aged film stock, with visible grain and soft focus. This authentic archival clip offers a glimpse into mid-20th century manual labor and everyday life.

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: 127256741

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s California home-movie requests needing rural outdoor labor, small-scale construction, or orchard work as documentary insert material.
Period detail: The hats, plaid work shirts, loose trousers, hand tools, and rough lumber may show everyday 1930s outdoor work clothing and practices in the Sacramento area.
Home-movie behavior: The scene has unstaged home-movie value as the men bend, lift, and position boards while the camera observes practical work at close range.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include three adult men, brimmed hats, plaid shirts, trousers, wooden planks or rails, a handled tool, bare orchard trees, and uneven ground.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, blue color shift, visible grain, frame-edge darkness, and slight handheld instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, transition, or memory beat for manual labor, rural California life, Depression-era domestic work, or construction detail.
Historical context: The clip visually situates adult men doing hands-on outdoor work in a leafless orchard or rural setting, without enough detail to identify the project or property.
Research note: People are visible and faces may be partially identifiable, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright and any location or property assessment.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1937 Sacramento 8mm home movie, men laying wooden boards, rural California labor footage, orchard work, and 1930s construction cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Sacramento 1937 material, then broader 1930s rural labor, orchard, lumber, and home construction footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1937 Sacramento home-movie footage, three adult men in hats and work clothes handle wooden boards in a leafless rural setting. — Men in hats arrange wooden boards or rails outdoors among bare trees.

A man in plaid work clothing lifts a long board as two other men continue outdoor work in the 1937 Sacramento scene. — One worker carries a long board while others bend over the lumber on the ground.

Three men in period work clothes adjust boards on the ground while one stands with a long-handled tool in Sacramento footage from 1937. — Workers bend and stand around boards laid across the ground.

In the final frame, two men bend near wooden boards while a third stands in the leafless rural Sacramento setting. — Men continue arranging boards in a bare orchard-like outdoor area.

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