Long Beach California USA-1971: Showing All The Different Flags Blowing On Top

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

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Showing All The Different Flags Blowing On Top — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a large ocean liner docked at Long Beach, California. The white superstructure contrasts with the dark hull as multiple flags, including the French tricolor, flutter in the wind along the ship's deck. The footage, framed by the characteristic black borders of Super 8 film, shows a steady view of the vessel's side, highlighting its classic mid-century design and maritime details. This archival clip evokes a sense of travel and nostalgia from the early 1970s.

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: 123062088

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: 1971 Long Beach maritime home-movie footage for productions needing an ocean-liner exterior, ship-deck flags, or early-1970s travel cutaway.
Period detail: The liner’s dark hull, white superstructure, long window band, and national flags may show mid-century passenger-ship styling still visible in 1971.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from dockside or a nearby vantage point, holding on the ship’s side rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark ship hull, white upper decks, rows of rectangular windows, deck rail lines, flagpoles, fluttering flags, rigging, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, warm exposure, slight handheld framing, and visible gate borders that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief maritime insert, travel transition, port cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about ocean travel or Long Beach.
Historical context: The footage documents a large passenger vessel at Long Beach in 1971, emphasizing deck flags and ship architecture rather than crowds or identifiable activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but ship identity, flag use, copyright, and any property or vessel permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1971 Long Beach ocean liner, 8mm ship flags, vintage passenger ship exterior, docked liner home movie, and 1970s maritime travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1971 Long Beach harbor views, then related ocean-liner, port, travel, and ship-flag footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Long Beach home-movie frame showing a docked ocean liner’s dark hull, white superstructure, long window band, and flags along the top deck. — Docked ocean liner side with flags visible above the white superstructure.

1971 Long Beach frame of the liner’s white upper decks, dark lower hull, deck windows, and multiple flags blowing along the top edge. — Flags fly over the liner’s white deck structure and dark hull.

1971 Long Beach home-movie view of the ship’s side, showing the white superstructure, long window strip, dark hull, and flags in the wind. — Side view of the liner with flags and rows of windows.

Final 1971 Long Beach frame with the liner cropped at the side, showing a flag above the white deck, long windows, and the dark hull beneath. — Cropped view of the ocean liner with a flag above the deck line.

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