Long Beach California USA-1971: Large Ocean Liner Docked At Pier With Three Smokestacks

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

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Large Ocean Liner Docked At Pier With Three Smokestacks — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1971 captures a large ocean liner docked at a pier in Long Beach, California. The iconic ship features a white hull, multiple decks, and a prominent red and black smokestack. The footage, shot on Super 8 film, shows the vessel from various angles with a grainy, nostalgic quality and soft focus, evoking mid-century maritime travel. The scene includes a calm harbor and a hazy sky, with the ship's details slightly blurred by the film's age and motion.

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: 123062251

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 harbor footage for productions needing an ocean liner, pier, or maritime travel insert from real 8mm home-movie material.
Period detail: The large multi-deck liner, red-and-black funnels, waterfront pier, and hazy harbor view may show early 1970s leisure-travel and port-side visual context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot viewpoint, observing the docked liner from a distance without staged action or formal coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large white ocean liner, red-and-black smokestacks, rigging, pier structures, calm harbor water, hazy sky, and soft frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows warm faded color, visible grain, gate edges, handheld framing, soft focus, and exposure shifts typical of home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime cutaway, travel-memory beat, harbor transition, or establishing insert for Long Beach or ocean-liner material.
Historical context: The footage documents a large passenger vessel presented as a sightseeing subject in a harbor setting, without supporting claims about a specific voyage or event.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are flagged, but vessel identity, copyright status, and any property or trademark implications should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1971 Long Beach ocean liner 8mm, vintage harbor pier footage, docked passenger ship, and 1970s maritime home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Long Beach 1971 harbor material, then broader 1970s ocean liner, pier, and maritime travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Long Beach 8mm frame showing a large white ocean liner at a pier, with a prominent red-and-black funnel and soft film edges. — A docked ocean liner fills the frame from pier level, its red-and-black funnel rising above the decks.

Side view of the Long Beach ocean liner in 1971, showing layered decks, rigging, pier structures, and warm faded 8mm color. — The camera holds on the ship's side, with decks and rigging visible above the pier.

Distant 1971 Long Beach harbor view of a large liner with three funnels, seen through haze across calm water on 8mm film. — A wider harbor view shows the liner docked near the pier, softened by haze and film grain.

Soft, hazy Long Beach harbor frame from 1971 showing the docked liner with three funnels and a pier extending across the water. — The liner appears through haze in a distant harbor view, with the pier running alongside it.

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