Long Beach California USA-1971: Large Ocean Liner In Port

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

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Large Ocean Liner In Port — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a massive ocean liner docked at Long Beach, California. The camera pans along the ship's immense hull, revealing its dark lower body, white superstructure, and rows of portholes. A small sailboat is visible in the distance near a rocky breakwater. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural film imperfections, offering a nostalgic glimpse of maritime history and mid-century travel.

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: 123062188

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 8mm harbor footage suited to documentary inserts about ocean liners, port travel, Long Beach waterfront, or leisure-era maritime transportation.
Period detail: The visible liner profile, rows of portholes, white upper decks, and warm 8mm color may show early 1970s passenger-ship or port activity in Long Beach.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, panning close along the ship's hull from dockside or harbor edge without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: A dark ocean-liner hull, white superstructure, rows of portholes, deck railings, a rocky breakwater, harbor water, and a distant sailboat are visible.
Film character: The footage carries warm faded color, soft focus, handheld framing, gate-edge darkness, and 8mm grain that mark it as scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a brief maritime cutaway, establishing insert, travel-memory beat, or transition between harbor and ocean-liner sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents a large vessel at port from a civilian vantage point, showing scale and waterfront infrastructure without identifiable passengers or crew.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are evident, but ship identity, vessel ownership, location permissions, and copyright status should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1971 8mm Long Beach ocean liner, vintage harbor ship footage, Super 8 port vessel, and home movie passenger ship hull.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other 1971 Long Beach harbor material, then broader vintage ocean-liner, port, sailboat, and maritime travel clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Long Beach home-movie frame showing the dark hull of a large ocean liner with harbor water, breakwater rocks, and a small sailboat beyond. — The camera looks along the liner's dark hull toward harbor water and a distant sailboat.

1971 Long Beach frame with a large ocean liner filling the view, showing dark lower hull, white superstructure, and rows of portholes. — The ship fills the frame, emphasizing the height of the hull and upper deck line.

1971 Long Beach 8mm frame looking upward along the side of a large docked liner, with portholes, lifeboat shapes, and deck structures visible. — An angled dockside view runs along the liner's hull toward the upper decks.

1971 Long Beach frame showing the liner's side from a low angle, with dark hull, white upper decks, flags or deck details, and distant breakwater. — The final frame continues the low-angle pan along the liner with harbor rocks beyond.

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