Ontario Canada-1958: Middle Aged Man Reeling In A Fish

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationOntario, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Ontario Canada

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Middle Aged Man Reeling In A Fish — Clip Details

A middle-aged man in a white long-sleeved shirt reels in a fishing line from a boat on a calm bay in Ontario, Canada, in 1958. The 8mm home movie footage captures his focused effort against a backdrop of blue water and a distant shoreline with a lighthouse and buildings. The film shows natural grain, slight color fading, and authentic vintage imperfections, evoking a nostalgic 1950s recreational moment. The clip includes both close-ups of the man’s hands on the rod and wider shots of the coastal scenery, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 123611314

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1958 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: Ontario, Canada 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: Useful for 1950s recreational fishing, boating, and lakeside leisure sequences in documentary, museum, education, or period lifestyle edits.
Period detail: The white long-sleeved shirt, small boat setting, 8mm color stock, and metadata-supported 1958 Ontario setting may show mid-century Canadian vacation or sport-fishing leisure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie view of a man concentrating on reeling a fishing line from a boat while another passenger films or sits nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include seated adults, a fishing rod and reel, blue open water, a green boat surface, distant shoreline buildings, and a lighthouse-like structure.
Film character: The footage has handheld 8mm texture, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, color fading, and frame-edge darkness typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, recreational cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition between boating, fishing, and shoreline scenes.
Historical context: The scene documents mid-century outdoor leisure from a small boat, with waterfront architecture and open water giving broader context beyond the fishing action.
Research note: People are visible, including partial faces, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright status is separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Ontario 8mm fishing footage, vintage boating home movie, mid-century lake recreation, man reeling fish, and Canadian shoreline travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Ontario waterfront footage, then broader 1950s boating, fishing, and vacation home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Ontario home-movie frame showing a seated adult in a small boat handling a fishing rod beside open blue water. — A seated passenger works a fishing rod from the boat as water fills the background.

Middle-aged man in a white shirt reels a fishing line from a boat on Ontario water in the 1958 home movie. — The man leans forward while reeling from the boat, with open water behind him.

Close 8mm frame of an adult's hands working a fishing reel from a small boat during the 1958 Ontario outing. — A close view centers on the fishing reel and the seated passenger's hands.

Ontario shoreline seen from the boat, with low buildings, a lighthouse-like structure, blue water, and a small sailboat nearby. — The camera turns toward the shoreline, showing waterfront buildings and a lighthouse-like structure.

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