Chelan Washington-1939: Men Playing Fighting And Eating

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationChelan, Washington, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Chelan Washington

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Men Playing Fighting And Eating — Clip Details

CHELAN WASHINGTON-1939: A grainy, black-and-white 8mm home movie captures a chaotic and humorous moment among men in suits. One man is playfully restrained while another holds a small animal, possibly a raccoon, adding to the lighthearted commotion. The footage shows men laughing and engaging in playful physical antics, with one man in glasses holding the animal up. The scene is shot on vintage 8mm film, featuring natural film grain and a handheld, intimate perspective typical of personal home movies from the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & 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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127498454

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: Supports 1930s home-movie requests needing informal adult social antics, comic roughhousing, and a brief personal-life insert from Chelan, Washington.
Period detail: Men in suits, shirts, ties, and eyeglasses may show late-1930s social dress in a private indoor setting, consistent with the supplied 1939 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the unstaged physical joking, laughter, and handling of a small animal during a casual gathering rather than a posed formal scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adult men, suits and ties, close physical play, smiling faces, a small animal, eyeglasses, dark interior walls, and heavy 8mm grain.
Film character: The clip has a grainy black-and-white 8mm look with soft focus, uneven exposure, rounded frame edges, and handheld intimacy typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a comic insert, family-memory beat, social-gathering cutaway, or quick transition into informal late-1930s leisure footage.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for adult male social behavior and private gathering humor without supporting claims about a named event or public occasion.
Research note: Faces and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed separately from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Chelan Washington home movie, men roughhousing in suits, 1930s private gathering, and black-and-white 8mm social footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Chelan footage, then broader themes of home-movie parties, men joking, and informal animal handling.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Chelan home-movie footage, adult men in suits appear to playfully restrain another man in a dark interior. — Men crowd around and restrain a laughing man in a roughhousing moment.

A black-and-white 8mm frame shows men in Chelan, Washington, playfully grappling in a private indoor setting. — A man holds another around the shoulders during comic physical play.

A suited man with glasses holds a small animal close to the camera in grainy 1939 Chelan home-movie footage. — A bespectacled man presents a small animal while standing indoors.

A man in glasses handles a small animal in a dark interior, with another partially visible figure below the frame. — A man lifts or steadies a small animal during the indoor gathering.

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