Long Beach California USA-1971: Ocean Liner Cruise Ship Docked At Port With Lifeboats And Smokestack

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

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Ocean Liner Cruise Ship Docked At Port With Lifeboats... — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1971 captures a classic ocean liner docked at Long Beach, California. The white passenger ship features a prominent red and black smokestack, rows of lifeboats, and a tall mast adorned with flags. Shot through a dark frame, likely from a window, the footage shows the ship's elegant deck railings and windows under an overcast sky, evoking a nostalgic mid-century travel atmosphere.

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: 123060658

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 travel, port, and ocean-liner sequences needing a brief home-movie view of a passenger ship docked in Long Beach.
Period detail: The red-and-black funnel, white superstructure, lifeboats, railings, and signal flags provide visible mid-century ocean-liner details in footage dated by metadata to 1971.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, filmed from behind a dark window or frame while observing the ship at close range rather than from a staged vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white passenger ship, lifeboats, a red-and-black smokestack, mast rigging with flags, deck railings, rows of windows, and dark window-like borders.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that support its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, location insert, travel-memory beat, or transition into a port or cruise sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually reflects leisure travel and waterfront viewing culture through a passenger ship observed at port, without identifying the vessel by name.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable vessel branding are visible, but copyright and any vessel or port-related property issues should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1971 Long Beach ocean liner, 8mm cruise ship docked at port, passenger ship lifeboats, and vintage California harbor footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1971 Long Beach harbor material, then broader ocean-liner, cruise, and port-travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Long Beach home-movie view of a docked white passenger ship with lifeboats, mast flags, railings, and a red-and-black funnel. — Docked passenger ship with lifeboats and smokestack viewed through a dark window-like frame.

1971 Long Beach frame showing the ship's upper decks, lifeboats, mast rigging with small flags, and red-and-black smokestack. — Upper deck details of the docked ocean liner, including lifeboats, rigging, and funnel.

Close 1971 Long Beach view of the ocean liner's side, with a lifeboat above deck railings, stairs, doors, and rectangular windows. — Closer look at the ship's side, deck railings, stairs, and window rows beneath a lifeboat.

1971 Long Beach home-movie frame of the ship's white side, showing a lifeboat above railings, deck openings, and rows of dark windows. — Shipboard details with lifeboat, railings, doorways, and repeated windows along the hull.

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