Long Beach California USA-1971: Large Passenger Cruise Ship With Red And Black Smokestack

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationLong Beach, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 California

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Large Passenger Cruise Ship With Red And Black Smokestack — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a large passenger cruise ship docked in Long Beach, California. The iconic red and black smokestack stands prominently against an overcast sky, with white lifeboats secured along the deck. The camera pans slowly, revealing the ship's classic design, railings, and a tall mast with flags. The footage exhibits natural film grain and a nostalgic, archival quality, evoking mid-20th century maritime travel and Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123060641

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 1758 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: III-02,sacto state
Reel-level year note: 1971
Reel-level location note: california,sacramento
Date: 1971 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: Long Beach, 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: Useful for 1970s editorial projects needing passenger ship exteriors, maritime travel atmosphere, or a Long Beach harbor-era cutaway from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The red-and-black funnel, white lifeboats, railings, and mast flags may show mid-century passenger ship design as filmed in 1971 at Long Beach.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, holding close on the ship's funnel, lifeboats, and deck details rather than staging a formal maritime record.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a large ship hull, white lifeboats, red-and-black smokestack, deck railings, mast with flags, rigging lines, and an overcast sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, gate edges, and handheld movement that mark it as physical home-movie footage.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short harbor insert, travel transition, vessel detail cutaway, or memory beat within a 1970s maritime or California sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually places leisure or passenger sea travel within a 1971 Long Beach setting, without identifying the vessel or voyage from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but vessel identity, copyright status, and any property or location permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1971 8mm Long Beach passenger ship, red black smokestack cruise ship, vintage harbor home movie, and white lifeboats on ocean liner.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1971 Long Beach harbor footage, then broader 1970s ships, docks, and maritime travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Long Beach 8mm frame showing a passenger ship exterior with white lifeboats, deck railings, and a red-and-black funnel. — Passenger ship details with lifeboats and funnel visible from dockside.

1971 Long Beach home-movie frame of a large passenger ship with lifeboats along the deck and the red-and-black funnel behind them. — Dockside view of lifeboats lined along the passenger ship.

1971 Long Beach 8mm frame showing the ship's lifeboats, red-and-black funnel, rows of windows, and part of a mast with flags. — The camera angle widens to include windows and a mast beside the funnel.

1971 Long Beach frame of a passenger ship side, showing lifeboats, railings, rows of windows, a mast with flags, and the red-and-black funnel. — Side view of the passenger ship with lifeboats, windows, and mast flags.

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