Chelan Washington-1939: Black And White Footage Of Farmers In Field And Grinding

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationChelan, Washington, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Chelan Washington

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Black And White Footage Of Farmers In Field And Grinding — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures farmers in Chelan, Washington, preparing food outdoors. The black-and-white footage shows men in hats and work clothes grinding meat at a wooden table near a tent, with close-ups of hands handling raw meat. The grainy, high-contrast image and visible film damage reflect its age, offering authentic archival footage of rural life and agricultural work from the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127496313

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 1674 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: mt washington,quebec
Date: 1939 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Chelan, Washington, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: Archival 1930s home-movie footage for documentary or educational edits needing rural Washington food preparation, farm labor, and outdoor camp-life material.
Period detail: The men's brimmed hats, work clothes, wooden table, tent canvas, and hand-cranked or table-mounted food preparation setup may show late-1930s rural work practices consistent with the supplied Chelan, Washington metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value in the way the camera watches men working informally around an outdoor table and then moves close to hands handling meat.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include men in hats and work shirts, brush or field vegetation, a canvas tent or shelter, a rough wooden table, bowls and cups, raw meat, and close-up hands using a tool or grinder.
Film character: The black-and-white 8mm image carries heavy grain, high contrast, soft focus, frame-edge vignetting, dust, scratches, and slight handheld instability typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, cutaway, or tactile memory beat for rural food preparation, farm routines, or Depression-era domestic labor sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually places food preparation in an outdoor rural setting, with men performing practical work around a simple table rather than in a commercial or formal kitchen environment.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed, while no logos or audible music are indicated and copyright status remains separate from any personal or property rights assessment.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 8mm home movie farmers preparing meat, Chelan Washington rural food preparation, black-and-white farm camp footage, and men grinding meat outdoors.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1939 Chelan or Washington rural footage, and then with broader 1930s home-movie scenes of farm labor, camp cooking, and food preparation.

Still Frames From This Clip

Black-and-white 1939 home-movie frame from Chelan, Washington, showing a man in work clothes and a brimmed hat standing in dense brush or field vegetation. — Man standing in a brushy field area.

Black-and-white 1939 Chelan, Washington frame showing two men in hats and work clothes preparing food at a wooden table beside a canvas tent or shelter. — Men preparing food at an outdoor table.

Home-movie frame from 1939 Chelan, Washington, showing men working over a rough outdoor table with cups, bowls, and food preparation items near a canvas shelter. — Outdoor food preparation beside a shelter.

Close-up black-and-white 1939 Chelan, Washington frame showing hands handling raw meat on a wooden surface, with a dark food preparation tool or grinder partly visible. — Hands working with meat on a wooden surface.

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