Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA-1964: View Riding A Ferry Across A Creek

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Pennsylvania

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View Riding A Ferry Across A Creek — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1964 showing a view from a ferry crossing a waterway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The clip begins with a hazy sky visible through the window frame, then transitions to a moving perspective of a river or canal with a distant industrial pier and overhead gantry crane. The image is grainy with film scratches and a purple color cast typical of 1960s home movies. The camera remains steady, capturing the motion of the ferry as it navigates the water, with reflections visible on the surface. This authentic archival footage captures a moment of mid-century transportation and urban waterway activity.

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: 120927964

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: 1964 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: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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: 1960s 8mm home-movie footage suited to documentary or educational requests for ferry travel, urban waterways, and industrial waterfront views in Philadelphia.
Period detail: The distant pier structure, overhead gantry-like frame, soft color reversal look, and ferry-window viewpoint support a mid-1960s transportation context without identifying a specific waterway or facility.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged passenger perspective from a moving ferry, with the camera observing the crossing and shoreline rather than posing a subject.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a hazy sky, dark ferry window framing, calm water, shoreline, industrial pier structures, an overhead gantry or crane form, reflections, and film-edge marks.
Film character: The footage has 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, minor scratches, uneven exposure, and a purple color cast from aged film stock.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, transition, or memory beat for mid-century ferry travel, waterways, or industrial waterfront atmosphere.
Historical context: The view suggests everyday water transportation near an urban industrial edge, showing infrastructure and shoreline activity from a passenger's moving vantage point.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are evident in the provided frames, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related concerns should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1964 Philadelphia ferry footage, 1960s 8mm waterway crossing, home movie industrial pier view, or vintage ferry passenger perspective.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1964 Philadelphia waterways or transportation clips, and then broader 1960s ferry, pier, and industrial waterfront footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Philadelphia home-movie frame showing a hazy view through dark ferry window framing with faint water and shoreline detail. — Hazy view through ferry window framing.

1964 Philadelphia ferry-view frame looking across calm water toward distant industrial pier structures and an overhead gantry-like form. — Industrial pier across the water.

1964 Philadelphia home-movie frame from a ferry crossing, with distant pier structures and a gantry-like form reflected on the water. — Pier structures during ferry crossing.

1964 Philadelphia ferry-view frame showing calm water, a distant pier, an overhead gantry-like structure, and a small dark vessel or dock shape near the right edge. — Waterway and pier from the ferry.

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