Sacramento California-1937: Man Wearing Tan Shirt Lifts Wood Beam On Construction Frame

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

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Man Wearing Tan Shirt Lifts Wood Beam On Construction Frame — Clip Details

A man in a light-colored shirt and trousers works on a wooden framework structure at a construction site in Sacramento, California, in 1937. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures him lifting and positioning a large wooden beam as part of a larger wooden frame, possibly a tower or support structure. The scene is set outdoors on a sunny day, with a simple building and trees visible in the background. The grainy, black-and-white quality and film edges are characteristic of vintage home movie footage from the 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127256827

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 construction or home-movie requests needing brief, non-staged footage of a man handling lumber on an outdoor wooden frame.
Period detail: The clothing, simple worksite, black-and-white 8mm image, and metadata-supported 1937 date place the scene in a late-1930s home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip records an ordinary work action as the camera observes a man lifting and positioning a beam rather than staging a formal construction demonstration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in light clothing, a tall wooden framework, lumber or beams, a plain building wall, bare tree branches, sunlit ground, and film frame edges.
Film character: The footage has a grainy 8mm black-and-white texture with soft focus, variable exposure, and visible frame boundaries from the physical film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, labor insert, or memory beat for Depression-era construction, local history, or everyday work sequences.
Historical context: The scene may show small-scale building or maintenance work in Sacramento, offering visual context for outdoor manual labor without identifying the exact structure.
Research note: A person is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or audible music are indicated, but copyright and location permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1937 Sacramento 8mm construction footage, 1930s man lifting wood beam, vintage home movie worksite, or outdoor wooden frame labor.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Sacramento 1937 material, and then broader 1930s construction or manual labor home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

In metadata-supported 1937 Sacramento footage, a man in light work clothes stands beside a wooden frame at an outdoor site. — A man prepares to handle lumber beside a tall wooden framework.

A man in light clothing raises a wooden beam on an outdoor framework in the 1937 Sacramento home-movie scene. — The worker lifts a beam toward the wooden structure.

The man continues positioning a long beam beside the timber framework, with a plain building and trees behind the work area. — The beam is lowered or shifted near the base of the frame.

Near the end of the clip, the worker bends at the base of the wooden structure as the 8mm frame shows heavy grain and edge shadows. — The worker bends down beside the wooden support frame.

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