San Francisco California-1944: American Flag Unfurled at Stadium Event

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

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American Flag Unfurled at Stadium Event — Clip Details

SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA-1944: A large American flag is unfurled across a stadium field during a patriotic public event. A massive crowd fills the stands behind the flag, and uniformed personnel stand in formation along the edge. The footage, shot on 8mm film, captures the vibrant red, white, and blue colors of the flag and the solemn, celebratory atmosphere of the gathering. The grainy texture and slight motion blur are characteristic of vintage home movie footage from the 1940s.

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: 125455954

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 1940s San Francisco 8mm footage for documentary or educational edits needing a patriotic public gathering with a large American flag and stadium crowd.
Period detail: The clip may show wartime-era civic ceremony details through the oversized U.S. flag, dense stadium seating, formal crowd arrangement, and uniformed personnel near the field.
Home-movie behavior: The value is a spectator-level home-movie view of a public ceremony, with the camera holding on the flag as it is spread across the field before the crowd.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large American flag, packed stadium stands, uniformed personnel at the field edge, ceremonial color guards, dark film borders, and handheld framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries coarse grain, soft focus, saturated flag colors, slight blur, and gate-edge borders that support its mid-1940s home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, patriotic ceremony cutaway, or memory beat establishing public wartime-era spectacle.
Historical context: The footage visually places national symbolism in a large civic or stadium setting without proving the exact event, organizer, or occasion from the frames alone.
Research note: People and uniformed personnel are visible, so likeness and institutional identification should be reviewed separately from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1940s San Francisco 8mm American flag ceremony, wartime home movie stadium crowd, or patriotic public event archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1944 San Francisco material, then broader 1940s patriotic ceremony or crowd footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1944 San Francisco 8mm frame showing a large U.S. flag being unfurled before a packed stadium crowd. — A large American flag covers the field as spectators fill the stands behind it.

1944 San Francisco home-movie frame with a huge American flag stretched across a stadium field before spectators. — The flag lies across the field while the crowd remains seated in the background.

1944 San Francisco 8mm view of a stadium crowd watching a large American flag ceremony on the field. — Spectators in the stands face the large flag laid out across the stadium field.

1944 San Francisco frame showing a large U.S. flag across a stadium field with uniformed personnel in the foreground. — Uniformed personnel line the field edge as the large flag stretches across the scene.

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