Long Beach California-1937: Images Of The Signal Hill Oil Industry In Full

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Year1937
Decade1930s
LocationLong Beach, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1937 California

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Images Of The Signal Hill Oil Industry In Full — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage home movie captures the industrial landscape of Long Beach, California. The footage opens with a title card reading 'SIGNAL HILL, LONG BEACH,' before transitioning to a wide view of an oil field dominated by numerous derricks and industrial structures. The black-and-white imagery, marked by film grain and a soft focus, shows a sprawling complex with low buildings and utility poles under a hazy sky. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse into early 20th-century industrial development and the region's growing petroleum industry.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127254389

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1937 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: Long Beach, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s documentary or educational edits needing 8mm views of Southern California oil production and industrial landscape.
Period detail: The title card, dense derricks, low industrial buildings, railcars or tanks, and utility poles support a 1930s Signal Hill oil-field setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot, observational viewpoint, holding on the oil field without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a Signal Hill title card, clustered oil derricks, low industrial buildings, utility poles, railcars or cylindrical tanks, scrub ground, and a hazy sky.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows pronounced grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet edge darkness typical of small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, industrial cutaway, geographic transition, or historical memory beat for Long Beach petroleum coverage.
Historical context: The footage visually places petroleum infrastructure close to roads, utility lines, and low buildings, showing an industrialized landscape rather than a residential scene.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-related concerns should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1937 8mm Signal Hill oil field, Long Beach California derricks, Southern California petroleum industry, and vintage industrial home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Long Beach footage, then other 1937 Southern California material, then broader oil-field, industry, development, or pollution themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 8mm title card for Signal Hill, Long Beach, shown in white lettering on a mottled black-and-white film background. — Title card identifies Signal Hill, Long Beach.

Wide 1937 Long Beach oil-field view with many derricks behind low industrial buildings, utility poles, and tanks or railcars. — Oil-field structures and utility poles at Signal Hill.

Soft-focus 1937 Signal Hill oil-field frame showing clustered derricks, low buildings, utility poles, and rough open ground. — Soft 8mm view across the Signal Hill oil field.

1937 Long Beach oil-field view with dense derricks, low industrial buildings, utility poles, and bare ground in the foreground. — Dense derricks rise behind low industrial buildings.

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