Ontario Canada-1940: Steam Ferry and Motorboat on Lake Ontario

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Year1940
Decade1940s
LocationOntario, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1940 Canada

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Steam Ferry and Motorboat on Lake Ontario — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1940, this vintage footage captures a steam-powered ferry navigating the waters of Ontario, Canada. The clip opens with a smaller motorboat cutting through wavy water, followed by a larger, multi-deck steamship emitting dark smoke from its tall chimney. The white and black vessel, likely a passenger ferry, moves steadily across the lake under an overcast sky, with another smaller boat visible in the distance. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and film edge borders evoke a nostalgic, archival feel, offering a glimpse into mid-20th century transportation and leisure on the Great Lakes.

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: 124763650

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: 1940 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 1940s Ontario transportation, lake travel, ferry service, or home-movie cutaways in documentary, museum, education, and editorial productions.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-20th-century lake passenger transport, with a multi-deck steam ferry, tall smokestack, simple hull markings, and small working boats on open water.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot shoreline or boatboard perspective, observing passing vessels without staging or visible performance for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a smoking ferry, wavy lake surface, distant shoreline, overcast sky, smaller motorboat, film frame borders, and faded color exposure.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, transportation cutaway, travel transition, or quiet memory beat for lake travel and ferry movement.
Historical context: The scene places ferry and small-boat traffic within everyday recreational or transport activity on Ontario waters, without identifying the exact route or vessel.
Research note: No logos are readable and no private property is prominent, but reported visible people require likeness review separate from copyright or source-film rights.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1940 Ontario 8mm ferry footage, steam ferry on lake, Great Lakes passenger boat home movie, and vintage Canadian boating scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Ontario travel footage, then other 1940 Ontario water scenes, then broader vintage ferry, lake boating, and steamship material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940 Ontario 8mm frame showing a multi-deck steam ferry moving across choppy lake water under a pale sky. — A smoking steam ferry passes across wavy lake water, framed by the dark edge of the film gate.

The multi-deck ferry remains in profile as smoke drifts above the vessel on the open lake.

A 1940 Ontario lake scene shows the steam ferry crossing frame while a smaller boat enters at the left edge. — A smaller boat appears near the edge as the smoking ferry moves across the wavy water.

A small motorboat passes near the camera while the steam ferry continues behind it on Ontario lake waters. — A small boat crosses the foreground as the smoking ferry travels in the background.

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