San Francisco California USA-1973: Tall Hotel Building with Flags at Half-Mast

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 San Francisco California

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Tall Hotel Building with Flags at Half-Mast — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from 1973 captures a striking view of a tall hotel building in San Francisco, California. The clip shows the building's facade with two flags flying at half-mast, one American and one California state flag, against a purple-tinted sky. The lower portion reveals a classic architectural structure with ornate details and multiple windows. The footage exhibits characteristic film grain and color saturation of 1970s home movies, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century urban life and architecture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 120966135

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: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1395 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: honeymoon
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: salt lake,utah,sf, california,monerey,lake tahoe
Date: 1973 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: San Francisco, California, 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: This 1973 San Francisco 8mm clip supports archival requests for 1970s urban travel, hotel architecture, and exterior city-building inserts for documentary or editorial use.
Period detail: Visible era clues include saturated 8mm color, soft handheld framing, high-rise hotel windows, older masonry foreground buildings, and American and California flags against a downtown facade.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on a tall San Francisco building and flags as a point of interest during travel rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: The frames show a tall windowed high-rise, flagpoles with American and California flags, darker older buildings in the foreground, a roofline with decorative trim, and purple-blue film color.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, mild softness, color shift toward purple-blue, and slight exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, architectural cutaway, city travel transition, or quiet memory beat for 1970s San Francisco.
Historical context: The view places a visitor's camera on downtown San Francisco hotel architecture and civic flags without showing pedestrians, traffic, or a confirmed public event.
Research note: No people are visible, but the identifiable building, flags, and possible brand or property associations should be reviewed separately from copyright and likeness considerations.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1973 San Francisco hotel exterior, 8mm downtown building facade, California flag half mast, 1970s urban travel footage, and vintage city architecture cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 San Francisco exteriors, and then broader 1970s city travel or hotel architecture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 San Francisco 8mm frame showing a tall hotel-like facade, flagpoles, and darker older buildings in the foreground. — High-rise facade with flags and foreground rooftops.

1973 San Francisco frame with American and California flags rising in front of a tall downtown building facade. — Flags in front of a tall downtown facade.

Purple-tinted 8mm view of a San Francisco high-rise with flags and older foreground architecture below. — Windowed high-rise above older foreground buildings.

Final 1973 San Francisco 8mm frame centered on a California flag, high-rise windows, and darker foreground buildings. — California flag before a high-rise facade.

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