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A man in a light-colored shirt and hat works on a wooden tower structure in Sacramento, California, in 1937. Shot on 8mm film, the footage shows him kneeling and standing as he constructs the framework, with trees visible in the background. The grainy black-and-white image captures a moment of manual labor under bright sunlight, with strong shadows cast by the wooden beams. The final shot is a silhouette of the man at the top of the structure against the sky.
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