Sacramento California-1937: Man Carrying Pole In Orchard With Wooden Crates

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

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Man Carrying Pole In Orchard With Wooden Crates — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage home movie captures a man in a dark coat and hat working in an orchard in Sacramento, California. He carries a long wooden pole across his shoulder, moving through rows of bare trees under a muted, overcast sky. The footage shows him pausing near stacked wooden crates, with a distinct blue color cast and film grain characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. The scene evokes a quiet, rural moment of early 20th-century agricultural life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 127256782

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: Useful for 1930s California agricultural life requests needing real home-movie orchard labor, rural work, or Depression-era farm cutaways.
Period detail: The hat, dark coat, high-waisted trousers, wooden crates, and bare orchard rows support a 1930s rural Sacramento setting from the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The man appears unposed as he carries and handles a long pole near crates, giving the clip everyday working behavior rather than staged performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a hat and coat, a long wooden pole, leafless orchard trees, rough ground, wooden crates, and dark foreground film borders.
Film character: The 8mm image has blue color cast, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an agricultural insert, rural labor cutaway, transition between Sacramento scenes, or quiet memory beat in a historical sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually situates one worker within a bare orchard landscape, suggesting seasonal farm maintenance or harvesting preparation without identifying the crop.
Research note: A person is visible, so copyright status should be reviewed separately from likeness considerations; no logos, minors, or obvious private-property details are visible.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1937 Sacramento orchard worker, 1930s California farm labor, 8mm home movie agriculture, man carrying pole, and wooden crates in orchard.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Sacramento 1937 material, then broader 1930s California agriculture or orchard labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1937 Sacramento home-movie footage, a man in dark clothing carries a long pole across his shoulder among bare orchard trees. — A man moves through the orchard with a long pole balanced across his shoulder.

The man is viewed from behind in the Sacramento orchard, with the pole spanning across the frame and leafless trees in the background. — The worker turns away from the camera while carrying the pole across the orchard.

A distant view shows the man standing among orchard rows near stacked wooden crates and a dark foreground object in the 1937 Sacramento footage. — The man pauses near crates at the edge of the orchard rows.

Near the end of the clip, the man stands by wooden crates in a bare Sacramento orchard, framed by soft blue-tinted 8mm film. — The worker remains near the crates as the orchard rows fill the background.

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