Long Beach California-1937: Industrial Oil Derricks And Pumping Units In Operation

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

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Industrial Oil Derricks And Pumping Units In Operation — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage footage captures an industrial oil field in Long Beach, California. The black-and-white clip shows multiple oil derricks and pumping units, with a prominent piston mechanism rhythmically moving up and down as it extracts crude. The scene includes metal towers, storage tanks, and utility poles, conveying the scale of early 20th-century oil production. The grainy, high-contrast image and film edge borders reflect authentic home movie quality from the era. This archival footage offers a nostalgic look at America's industrial growth during the 1930s.

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: 127254482

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

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: 1930s industrial home-movie footage suited for documentary inserts on California oil production, extraction machinery, and urban industry.
Period detail: Visible derrick towers, storage tanks, utility poles, and exposed steel structures support a 1937 Long Beach industrial oil-field setting from the metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage appears shot from an observer's position near the field, valuing the machinery and site layout rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: The clip shows oil derricks, pumping machinery, storage tanks, ladders, utility poles, overhead cables, and industrial yard walls.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows visible grain, high contrast, soft focus, frame edges, and slight handheld instability typical of home-movie scanning.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, transition, or establishing insert for oil extraction, 1930s industry, or Southern California growth.
Historical context: The frames visually place oil extraction infrastructure close to roads or utility corridors, suggesting an industrial landscape embedded in the city.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1937 Long Beach oil derricks, 1930s California oil field, 8mm industrial footage, and vintage pumping units.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel industrial shots, then 1937 Long Beach material, then broader 1930s oil, mining, and machinery footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 Long Beach oil-field view with steel derrick framing, ladder, utility poles, wall, and extraction equipment. — Oil-field machinery and derrick framing fill the industrial yard.

Steel oil derrick supports and a ladder stand above a walled industrial area in the 1937 Long Beach footage. — Steel supports and ladders define the oil-field structure.

Long Beach oil-field machinery appears in soft focus, with derrick framing, ladder, wall, pole, and yard details. — The camera holds on derrick supports and nearby oil-field equipment.

Wide 1937 Long Beach oil-field frame showing multiple derricks, storage tanks, stairs, utility poles, and overhead cables. — Multiple derricks rise behind storage tanks and stairs in the oil field.

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