San Francisco California-1944: Soldiers Marching with American Flags at Parade

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Year1944
Decade1940s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1944 San Francisco California

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Soldiers Marching with American Flags at Parade — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1944, this vintage footage captures a patriotic parade in San Francisco, California. A large crowd fills the stadium stands as uniformed soldiers march across a grassy field, carrying numerous American flags. The scene is imbued with 1940s nostalgia, showcasing period military attire and the vibrant red, white, and blue of the flags. The handheld camera captures the event with authentic film grain and slight motion blur, offering a raw, archival glimpse of wartime civic celebration and national pride.

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: 125455778

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1944 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: San Francisco, California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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: Useful for 1940s wartime-era civic ceremony coverage, especially documentary inserts about patriotic public gatherings, military display, and home-movie views of San Francisco events.
Period detail: The visible uniforms, massed American flags, stadium crowd, and 8mm color home-movie look support a 1940s setting consistent with the supplied 1944 San Francisco metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from the stands or sidelines, watching marchers and flag bearers pass through a crowded public event without staged camera direction.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include American flags, uniformed marchers, rifles, a large stadium crowd, grassy field, track edge, white foreground barrier, and handheld framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated flag colors, soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, and slight handheld blur that give the footage its original home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a short cutaway, patriotic ceremony insert, wartime civic transition, or memory beat between broader scenes of 1940s public life.
Historical context: The scene documents a public patriotic gathering with military participation and a large audience, reflecting visible civic ceremony rather than identifying a specific named event.
Research note: People and uniformed personnel are visible, so likeness and contextual use should be reviewed separately from any copyright assessment; no brands are apparent in these frames.
Research search match: Researcher searches may include 1940s 8mm patriotic parade, San Francisco wartime crowd, American flags military march, stadium ceremony home movie, and World War II era civic event.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other footage from the same reel, then with 1944 San Francisco material, and then with broader 1940s patriotic parade, military ceremony, or public celebration clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1944 San Francisco parade scene with American flags, uniformed marchers, a grassy field, and crowded stadium stands in soft 8mm color. — Flag bearers and uniformed marchers move past a packed stadium audience.

A 1940s San Francisco civic parade view shows flag bearers, uniformed personnel, rifles, and a packed stadium background. — Marchers with flags and rifles pass along the field edge.

American flags dominate the frame during a 1944 San Francisco patriotic parade, with spectators packed into stadium stands behind them. — Massing flags fill the foreground as the crowd watches from the stands.

The closing frame shows massed American flags and uniformed figures passing before a large San Francisco stadium audience in 8mm color footage. — Flags sweep across the camera view with spectators filling the background.

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