Long Beach California USA-1971: Ship Sailing With American Flag

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

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Ship Sailing With American Flag — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a large ocean liner sailing from Long Beach, California. The clip focuses on the ship's iconic black and orange smokestack, with an American flag prominently displayed and fluttering in the wind. Viewed through a frame of rigging, the footage shows the ship's white superstructure, portholes, and crew members on deck, conveying a sense of maritime travel and national pride. The warm, slightly faded color palette and film grain enhance its nostalgic, archival quality.

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: 123061056

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: 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 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 1971 archival edits needing maritime travel, Long Beach departure atmosphere, or a patriotic shipboard cutaway from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames show 1970s-era color home-movie texture, an ocean liner superstructure, rigging, a tall funnel, and a U.S. flag, with the 1971 Long Beach setting supported by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like a visitor or passenger filming upward from a nearby deck, catching the flag and funnel through surrounding rigging rather than a staged promotional angle.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a black-and-orange ship funnel, U.S. flag, white bridge windows, deck railings, rigging lines, a mast or boom, and small people on deck.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft grain, warm faded color, slight handheld framing, and contact-print edges that give the moment a physical home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime insert, patriotic cutaway, travel transition, or brief memory beat within a sequence about ocean liners or California harbor departures.
Historical context: The clip visually situates leisure or passenger travel around a large vessel, using the flag, funnel, and deck details to suggest public maritime life without proving a specific voyage.
Research note: People are small but visible and the ship markings or funnel colors may imply brand identification, so copyright, trademark, and likeness review should be handled separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1971 Long Beach 8mm ocean liner footage, U.S. flag on ship, vintage harbor departure, and home movie maritime travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1971 Long Beach harbor material, then related 1970s ocean liner, passenger ship, or patriotic flag footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Long Beach home-movie frame looking up at a ship funnel, U.S. flag, rigging, bridge windows, and railings. — Ship funnel and U.S. flag framed by rigging and deck details.

1971 Long Beach frame of an ocean liner funnel with an American flag, rigging, and white superstructure below. — American flag hangs beside the funnel above the ship's bridge windows.

1971 Long Beach 8mm frame showing the U.S. flag fluttering near a ship funnel and upper deck railings. — Flag moves across the funnel area while rigging and railings fill the frame.

1971 Long Beach home-movie view of a large ship's funnel and U.S. flag through rigging and a vertical mast. — The flag is raised beside the funnel as the ship's upper deck passes through frame.

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