Sacramento California-1937: Hard Working Man Laying Wood For Construction

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

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Hard Working Man Laying Wood For Construction — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this archival footage captures a construction worker at a building site in Sacramento, California. The low-angle view shows a man working amidst a wooden framework, likely a roof or support structure, with beams silhouetted against a bright sky. The grainy black-and-white image and film scratches reflect the era's home movie style, offering a raw glimpse into early 20th-century labor and construction techniques.

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: 127257036

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s 8mm Sacramento construction footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing brief manual-labor building-site context.
Period detail: The timber framing, hand labor, black-and-white 8mm look, and supplied 1937 Sacramento metadata place the scene in a late-1930s construction setting.
Home-movie behavior: The worker appears unstaged and partly silhouetted from a low home-movie viewpoint among construction timbers.
What appears in frame: A worker, angled beams, vertical supports, cross bracing, bright sky, film borders, grain, and scratches are visible.
Film character: The 8mm black-and-white scan has soft contrast, heavy grain, slight blur, gate edges, and exposure blooming around the sky.
Edit role: This clip can serve as a brief construction-labor insert, industrial cutaway, or transition into a 1930s California work sequence.
Historical context: The footage shows manual building work at a timber-framed structure without identifying the project or site beyond the supplied Sacramento metadata.
Research note: People are visible, so copyright status should be assessed separately from any likeness or location-related clearance questions.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1937 Sacramento construction worker, 8mm home movie building site, and 1930s manual labor footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then Sacramento 1937 material, then broader 1930s construction or labor scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 Sacramento construction scene showing a worker silhouetted among angled wooden beams and supports. — Worker seen from below within a timber framework at a construction site.

Low-angle 8mm frame of a Sacramento construction worker among timber supports, backlit by the sky. — Backlit worker positioned between beams and braces in the wooden structure.

1937 8mm construction view with a worker partly obscured by Sacramento timber framing and diagonal beams. — Partly obscured worker beneath intersecting wooden construction beams.

Sacramento 1937 home-movie frame showing a worker moving within a dark wooden construction frame against the sky. — Small worker figure framed by dark beams and supports against the bright sky.

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