Sacramento California-1937: Two Construction Workers Building A Wooden Tower

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

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Two Construction Workers Building A Wooden Tower — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this archival footage captures two construction workers building a wooden tower in Sacramento, California. The black-and-white home movie shows men in period workwear assembling a tall wooden framework, with one worker positioned high on the structure. The grainy, high-contrast image and film edge borders reflect the authentic quality of a vintage home movie. The scene conveys manual labor and teamwork during a mid-20th century construction project.

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: 127256846

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: Supports 1930s documentary or educational requests for Depression-era California construction labor, manual building methods, and workplace cutaways from real home-movie footage.
Period detail: The workers' clothing, timber framing, and 8mm black-and-white handling may show a small-scale 1930s construction project rather than a staged industrial scene.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged observation of workers climbing and assembling a wooden framework from a spectator's ground-level home-movie perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall wooden frame, cross-bracing, planks, ladders or vertical supports, two workers, open sky, nearby building edges, and heavy film borders.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, soft focus, high contrast, uneven exposure, gate edges, and contact-sheet-like frame divisions that preserve its physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, labor cutaway, construction transition, or memory beat within a sequence about work, growth, or local infrastructure.
Historical context: The footage visually documents hands-on wooden construction in Sacramento, with workers balancing on an unfinished frame and using simple structural materials.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed, while no logos or audible music are apparent and copyright clearance should be evaluated separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1937 Sacramento construction workers, 1930s 8mm building footage, wooden tower assembly, and vintage California labor home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Sacramento 1937 material, then broader 1930s construction, labor, and wooden framework footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 Sacramento home-movie frame showing workers at the base and side of a tall wooden construction frame. — Workers handle the lower section of a wooden tower framework.

1937 Sacramento footage shows a worker elevated on a wooden framed structure with cross-bracing and upright posts. — A worker climbs or works high on the wooden framework.

The unfinished wooden tower dominates the frame as a worker appears along the side of the structure in Sacramento, 1937. — The tower frame is shown closer, with a worker partly visible on the side.

Final frame shows a worker on the Sacramento wooden construction frame, with beams and braces silhouetted against the sky. — A worker continues assembling or positioning on the upper frame.

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