San Francisco California-1944: Honor Guard Carrying Large American Flag in Stadium

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

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Honor Guard Carrying Large American Flag in Stadium — Clip Details

SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA-1944: A solemn military honor guard in uniform stands at attention, carrying a massive American flag across a packed stadium field. The flag, with its red, white, and blue stripes and stars, is unfurled in a ceremonial display before a vast crowd. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the 8mm home movie footage captures the patriotic atmosphere of a wartime event. The scene shifts from a close view of the flag to a wider shot showing the full scale of the gathering, with soldiers and spectators filling the stands. This archival clip evokes the national spirit and ceremonial traditions of 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: 125455962

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s wartime-era productions needing stadium ceremony, patriotic pageantry, or U.S. flag honor guard footage from San Francisco.
Period detail: The uniforms, packed stadium setting, and large U.S. flag ceremony support the 1944 metadata and may show a wartime public event.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a spectator-shot view from the stands, with distant framing and handheld timing that emphasize the scale of the gathering.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a huge U.S. flag, uniformed honor guard, stadium field edge, crowded grandstands, railings, and dark film frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has coarse grain, soft focus, color fading, exposure variation, and visible gate edges that identify it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, patriotic transition, wartime crowd cutaway, or memory beat within a 1940s public ceremony sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows a large public audience watching a formal flag presentation, reflecting civic ceremony and national symbolism during the 1940s.
Research note: People and uniformed personnel are visible at a distance; copyright, likeness, military, and venue-related use should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1940s San Francisco stadium flag ceremony, 8mm U.S. honor guard footage, or wartime American crowd home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel ceremony shots, then other 1944 San Francisco footage, then related U.S. flag, stadium, military, or wartime public event material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1944 San Francisco stadium view of a huge U.S. flag being carried before a dense crowd, with uniformed figures along the field edge. — Honor guard carries a large American flag across the stadium field.

The blue field of the oversized American flag fills the lower stadium view as uniformed personnel move it before spectators. — The star field of the flag moves past the crowd.

In the stadium, the large American flag stretches across the frame while distant uniformed figures guide it before the audience. — The flag stretches across the field in front of the stands.

A wider 1944 San Francisco stadium view shows the massive U.S. flag spread across the field before a packed audience. — Wide view of the stadium flag ceremony and crowd.

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