San Francisco California-1939: People On Cruise Ship Talking Woman In Center

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 California

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People On Cruise Ship Talking Woman In Center — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a group of passengers on a cruise ship deck in San Francisco, California. Men in suits and hats and women in period dresses stand behind a metal railing, engaged in conversation and enjoying the voyage. The grainy black-and-white footage shows natural movement and candid interactions, with one woman in the center appearing to gesture or speak. The scene evokes a sense of mid-century leisure and travel nostalgia, with the ship's structure and railings framing the passengers against the open sky.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127270355

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 1166 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: may
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1939 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: San Francisco, California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 for 1930s travel, ocean-liner, or San Francisco departure sequences needing candid passenger deck footage from 8mm home movies.
Period detail: Men in dark suits and brimmed hats, women in dress coats, and the ship's metal deck railing support a late-1930s passenger-travel reading.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves unstaged social movement as passengers stand together, talk, and gesture from behind the ship railing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include suited passengers, women in period dress, brimmed hats, metal railings, ship wall panels, deck hardware, and dark film-edge bars.
Film character: The footage has a soft black-and-white 8mm look with visible grain, slight blur, gate marks, and uneven exposure that situate it as original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, departure insert, social-travel detail, or memory beat in a sequence about prewar leisure travel.
Historical context: The scene shows passengers gathered on a ship deck in San Francisco, reflecting public-facing leisure travel without identifying the vessel or occasion.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so copyright status should be assessed separately from likeness, privacy, and any needed contextual identification review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 8mm cruise ship passengers, San Francisco home movie ship deck, 1930s ocean travel, and people talking at railing.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1939 San Francisco waterfront or ship footage, then with broader 1930s leisure-travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In supported 1939 San Francisco 8mm footage, passengers stand and talk behind a metal railing on a cruise ship deck. — Passengers gather at the ship railing, some facing one another in conversation.

Passengers in period clothing appear behind a ship railing in 1939 San Francisco home-movie footage, with faces faintly visible. — Deck passengers remain grouped along the railing, partly masked by the 8mm frame edge.

A central passenger appears to gesture among others on a ship deck in supported 1939 San Francisco 8mm footage. — A central figure appears mid-gesture as nearby passengers watch or converse.

Several passengers cluster near a metal railing on a cruise ship deck in supported 1939 San Francisco home-movie footage. — Passengers cluster at the railing with the ship structure and deck lines framing them.

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