Cumberland Maryland-1938: Construction Site with Excavated Earth

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationCumberland, Maryland, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Cumberland Maryland

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Construction Site with Excavated Earth — Clip Details

CUMBERLAND MARYLAND-1938: A black-and-white 8mm home movie captures a construction site with excavated earth, wooden planks, and a partially built foundation. The grainy, high-contrast footage shows a rugged, textured landscape under bright daylight, with distant buildings visible in the background. The camera remains mostly static, offering a steady view of the raw, unfinished site. This archival clip evokes a sense of mid-20th century industrial development and urban growth, ideal for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific editorial projects.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127265864

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1938 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: Cumberland, Maryland, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1930s editorial requests for small-scale construction, excavation, and urban development cutaways in Cumberland, Maryland.
Period detail: Visible clues include black-and-white 8mm texture, rough excavation, simple timber planks, and distant multi-story buildings that may show a late-1930s urban work site.
Home-movie behavior: The static home-movie viewpoint records the site from a nearby vantage point without staged action or visible workers.
What appears in frame: The clip shows excavated earth, gravel banks, wood planks, posts, a partial foundation edge, scattered rocks, and distant buildings.
Film character: High-contrast black-and-white 8mm grain, soft focus, slight frame jitter, and contact-print edge darkness give the footage a tactile archival texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief cutaway, transition, or establishing insert for construction, infrastructure, land clearing, or local development sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually situates a construction area within a built environment, suggesting everyday changes to streetscapes or lots without identifying a specific project.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, and any underlying property considerations should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1938 Cumberland Maryland construction site, black-and-white 8mm excavation footage, and 1930s home movie building work.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other Cumberland 1938 material, then broader 1930s construction or excavation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Cumberland, Maryland 8mm frame showing a rough excavation site with timber supports, gravel, and buildings beyond the work area. — Excavated ground and simple wooden planks at a Cumberland construction site.

Black-and-white 8mm view of a Cumberland excavation with a timber rail, uneven earth, loose stones, and background buildings. — A rough dirt cut and timber rail define the edge of the construction area.

1938 Cumberland construction view with excavated earth, upright posts, rough planks, gravel piles, and a partial foundation edge. — Excavated earth and wooden supports fill the frame in this static construction view.

Final 8mm frame of the Cumberland site showing a dirt mound, rough stones, timber rail, and squared foundation edge in bright daylight. — The view settles on a dirt mound, wood rail, and foundation edge at the work site.

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