Long Beach California USA-1971: Ship Deck View With Lifeboat And Davit

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

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Ship Deck View With Lifeboat And Davit — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this clip captures a view from a ship's deck overlooking a bustling port in Long Beach, California. The foreground features a white ship's davit and a red lifeboat, with a busy roadway and parked cars visible below. The footage has a distinct vintage quality with warm tones and film grain, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-20th century maritime activity. The camera pans slightly, revealing more of the ship's structure and the surrounding industrial waterfront.

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: 123061359

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: 1970s Long Beach port deck-view footage for maritime, travel, industrial waterfront, or archival transportation sequences.
Period detail: The 8mm view may show early 1970s shipboard fittings, a red lifeboat, white davit hardware, parked cars, and a busy waterfront road below.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot shipboard perspective, looking down from deck level rather than staging the port or vessel details.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white davit arms, a red lifeboat, ship railing, deck hardware, roadway, parked cars, waterfront pavement, and distant port structures.
Film character: Warm color, visible grain, soft focus, gate edges, and slight handheld movement give the footage a clear 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a maritime cutaway, ship-departure insert, port transition, or brief memory beat within 1970s travel material.
Historical context: The frames place leisure or passenger ship viewing against an industrial port setting, with road traffic and dockside infrastructure visible below.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are apparent in the provided frames, but vessel design, port property, and location claims should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1971 Long Beach 8mm ship deck, California port lifeboat davit, vintage harbor roadway, and Super 8 maritime travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel shipboard shots, then other 1971 Long Beach harbor material, then broader 1970s port and maritime travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Long Beach ship deck view with a white davit, red lifeboat, rail, roadway, parked cars, and distant port structures. — A shipboard view frames a white davit and red lifeboat above Long Beach port traffic.

1971 Long Beach deck angle showing a curved white davit, red lifeboat, deck fittings, roadway, and rows of cars below. — The camera shifts along the ship deck, keeping the davit and lifeboat in the foreground.

1971 Long Beach shipboard frame with the white davit dominating the foreground and a red lifeboat, rail, cars, and dockside road behind. — The davit fills the foreground while the harbor roadway and parked cars remain visible below.

1971 Long Beach deck view with white davit hardware above a lifeboat, plus ship railing, dockside road, and cars beyond. — A final deck angle shows davit hardware and the lifeboat against the busy port below.

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