Long Beach California USA-1971: The Cruise Ship with Red Phone Booths and Lifeboat

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

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The Cruise Ship with Red Phone Booths and Lifeboat — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a man in a yellow and red plaid shirt and sunglasses walking along the deck of a cruise ship in Long Beach, California. The footage features iconic red British-style telephone booths and a wooden lifeboat mounted on the side, with a view of the harbor and distant cityscape. The warm, slightly faded color palette and visible film grain evoke a nostalgic, mid-20th century travel memory, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, editorial projects, and retro-themed content.

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: 123061333

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: 1970s 8mm travel footage useful for cruise, harbor, shipboard leisure, or Long Beach-era editorial sequences.
Period detail: The red British-style telephone booths, open ship deck, mounted lifeboat, and 1971 metadata point to early-1970s tourist travel imagery.
Home-movie behavior: A casually dressed man walks toward the camera on a ship deck, giving the scene an unstaged traveler-shot perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include red phone booths, a plaid-shirted man, sunglasses, ship railings, deck structures, a mounted wooden lifeboat, harbor roads, and distant buildings.
Film character: Warm faded color, soft focus, visible grain, handheld framing, and contact-sheet gate edges preserve the texture of original 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel-memory insert, cruise-ship cutaway, harbor transition, or 1970s vacation atmosphere beat.
Historical context: The clip shows leisure travel from a shipboard viewpoint, with harbor infrastructure and tourist deck features visible without identifying a specific vessel.
Research note: People and possible recognizable signage are visible, so copyright, likeness, and trademark or location-identification issues should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Search phrases might include 1971 Long Beach cruise ship deck, 8mm red telephone booths on ship, vintage lifeboat harbor view, or 1970s home movie travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other frames from the same reel, then with 1971 Long Beach or shipboard footage, then with broader vintage cruise and harbor travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Long Beach home-movie frame showing a man walking on a cruise ship deck beside red telephone booths. — A man in sunglasses walks along the ship deck beside red phone booths.

1971 shipboard frame from Long Beach showing a plaid-shirted man near red telephone booths and deck equipment. — The traveler moves closer to the camera with ship structures and red booths behind him.

1971 Long Beach shipboard view of a wooden lifeboat mounted beside the deck, with harbor traffic and buildings in the distance. — A lifeboat hangs along the side of the ship above a hazy harbor view.

1971 Long Beach home-movie frame showing a mounted ship lifeboat, white davit hardware, harbor roads, and distant buildings. — The camera holds on the lifeboat and harbor seen from the ship deck.

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