Cumberland Maryland-1938: Construction Site With Excavated Earth And Wooden Formwork

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationCumberland, Maryland, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Cumberland Maryland

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Construction Site With Excavated Earth And Wooden Formwork — Clip Details

CUMBERLAND MARYLAND-1938: This 8mm home movie captures a construction site with excavated earth, debris, and wooden formwork. The grainy black-and-white footage shows a partially built structure with a concrete foundation and a metal bracket mounted on a rough wall. The scene suggests early 20th-century infrastructure development, with a focus on raw materials and construction techniques. The film's vintage quality, including visible grain and edge damage, enhances its archival authenticity. Ideal for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring mid-century American construction.

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: 127265871

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

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: 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: 1930s Cumberland, Maryland construction footage suited to documentary or museum edits needing a brief home-movie view of excavation and early concrete formwork.
Period detail: The rough earthworks, simple timber supports, concrete edges, and monochrome 8mm texture may show small-scale construction methods documented in 1938.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on worksite details from a nearby observer's position, giving the clip unstaged value as a casual record of local building activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dug earth, rubble piles, wooden formwork, concrete edges, rough masonry or soil walls, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has dense black-and-white grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and gate-edge shadows that mark it as scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, infrastructure insert, local-history transition, or memory beat between broader 1930s Cumberland scenes.
Historical context: The footage documents a construction area rather than a completed landmark, offering visual context for local labor, materials, and built-environment change.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, site ownership, and property-context questions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1938 Cumberland Maryland construction, 8mm excavation footage, home movie building site, and 1930s concrete formwork.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Cumberland footage, then other 1938 Maryland material, then broader clips of excavation, foundations, and small construction sites.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Cumberland, Maryland 8mm frame showing dug earth, debris, and a low concrete or formwork edge at a construction site. — Excavated ground and low formwork at a Cumberland construction site.

Black-and-white 8mm view of a Cumberland construction area with mounded earth, rough ground, and a low concrete or timber form. — Mounded earth and formwork in a rough construction area.

1938 Cumberland construction detail showing rough wall texture, a pale mounted form or bracket, and vertical supports in grainy 8mm footage. — Detail of rough wall, supports, and mounted construction form.

Grainy 8mm frame from Cumberland showing a rough construction surface, supported pale formwork, and shadowed excavation below. — Supported formwork against a rough construction surface.

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