Long Beach California-1937: Crowded Oil Derricks On A Hillside Behind A Small Neighborhood

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

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Crowded Oil Derricks On A Hillside Behind A Small... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage home movie captures a dense cluster of oil derricks rising from a hillside in Long Beach, California. The black-and-white footage shows numerous tall, industrial towers dominating the landscape above a small residential neighborhood. Houses and trees dot the lower slopes, contrasting with the mechanical forest. The camera pans slowly across the scene, revealing the scale of early 20th-century oil expansion. Grainy texture and film scratches enhance the archival quality, offering a nostalgic glimpse into California's industrial past.

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: 127254429

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 requests needing California oil-field expansion seen from a residential edge.
Period detail: The footage shows a black-and-white 8mm view of dense oil derricks above small houses, consistent with the supplied 1937 Long Beach metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged home-movie observation, with the camera watching an industrial landscape from a distant neighborhood vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include crowded derrick towers, hillside structures, small houses, trees, utility poles, open ground, and soft distant industrial detail.
Film character: The 8mm image carries visible grain, slight softness, frame-edge darkness, and mild scratches that register as original physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, industrial cutaway, transition, or memory beat about oil development near everyday homes.
Historical context: The scene visually contrasts a small residential foreground with a dense oil-field hillside, suggesting how industry sat close to local neighborhoods.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any property-identification concerns for their use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1930s Long Beach oil derricks, California oil field home movie, 8mm industrial landscape, and hillside derrick footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel shots, then other 1937 Long Beach material, then broader California oil, industrial, or neighborhood-change footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 Long Beach home-movie frame showing many oil derricks rising over a small neighborhood and utility poles. — Oil derricks dominate the hillside above a small neighborhood.

Long Beach, California frame with crowded oil derricks on the slope behind houses and scattered trees. — Crowded derrick towers fill the slope behind the neighborhood.

1937 Long Beach view of an oil-field hillside, with derricks behind houses, poles, and a prominent tree. — The pan reveals more derricks and neighborhood foreground details.

Long Beach oil derricks stand across the hillside behind trees, poles, and a small neighborhood building. — The final view holds on derricks above trees and small buildings.

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