Sacramento California-1937: Farmer Building Wooden Structure

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Year1937
Decade1930s
LocationSacramento, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1937 Sacramento California

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Farmer Building Wooden Structure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this archival footage captures a rural construction site in Sacramento, California. A wooden framework structure dominates the scene, with a vintage car partially visible behind the scaffolding. The grainy black-and-white image shows a worker in period-appropriate clothing, likely a farmer, engaged in manual labor. The setting appears to be a farm or orchard, with trees and open land in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including soft focus, natural light, and a nostalgic, documentary-style perspective.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127256914

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: 1930s rural California construction footage for productions needing a brief home-movie view of farm labor, wooden framing, or Depression-era agricultural settings.
Period detail: The clip may show 1937 Sacramento farm construction, with a timber frame, hand-built materials, orchard ground, and a partially visible period automobile behind the structure.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from close range as a man works around the wooden framework, giving the scene an informal home-movie perspective rather than a staged building demonstration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include timber posts and cross-bracing, stacked boards or planks, a vintage car, open orchard land, a small building wall, cables or ropes, and one working adult.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing give the footage a physical home-movie texture suitable for archival use.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, rural labor insert, construction detail, or transitional memory beat in a 1930s agriculture or family-history sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually places manual building activity in a rural Sacramento-area setting, with orchard land and utilitarian timber work suggesting everyday farm infrastructure.
Research note: People are visible but not clearly identifiable; users should review likeness and property context separately from copyright or collection licensing.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1930s 8mm farm construction, Sacramento rural home movie, vintage orchard building work, and wooden framework with old car.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Sacramento or 1937 rural California clips, then broader farm labor, construction, and orchard footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 Sacramento home-movie frame showing timber framing, planks, and a partially hidden vintage car in a rural work area. — Timber framing and materials stand in front of a partially visible car at a rural construction site.

Black-and-white 8mm frame of a rural Sacramento construction area with timber supports, boards, and a period car in the background. — A timber structure fills the foreground while a car and open land appear behind it.

1937 Sacramento farm construction frame with an adult worker near timber framing, work materials, and orchard ground in the background. — An adult works near the timber frame as boards and orchard land surround the site.

Close view of the upper timber framework in a 1937 Sacramento rural construction scene, with braces silhouetted against the sky. — The camera tilts or frames upward to show the top of the wooden construction.

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