Ontario Canada-1940: Couple on Ferry Overlooking City Harbor

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

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Couple on Ferry Overlooking City Harbor — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1940, this vintage footage captures a couple silhouetted on a ferry ride across a calm lake in Ontario, Canada. The view from the boat shows a bustling city harbor with tall buildings, industrial smokestacks, and a prominent domed skyscraper in the distance. A white ferry boat is visible on the water, and the scene is framed by the boat's interior structure. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded colors, and a nostalgic, documentary-style feel, offering a rare glimpse into mid-20th century transportation and urban life.

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: 124763674

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 documentary edits needing Ontario harbor travel, ferry passenger views, or urban waterfront transportation from home-movie 8mm footage.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century harbor traffic, older waterfront buildings, smokestacks, and ferry interiors that may show an Ontario city waterfront in the 1940s.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a visitor-shot ferry perspective, with silhouetted passengers quietly watching the water and skyline rather than posing for camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include ferry windows, seated passenger silhouettes, open water, a white harbor boat, piers, smokestacks, tall city buildings, and a domed tower form.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, faded color, visible grain, dark window framing, and handheld exposure shifts that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a waterfront travel insert, a transition into an Ontario city sequence, or a memory beat for ferry and harbor life.
Historical context: The footage gives a social view of passenger movement across an urban harbor, linking leisure travel, working waterfront infrastructure, and city skyline views.
Research note: People appear in silhouette, so likeness review may still be needed; no visible logos are evident, and copyright clearance is separate from people or property review.
Research search match: Searches for 1940s Ontario ferry ride, vintage 8mm city harbor, home movie waterfront skyline, or Canadian lake boat travel may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Ontario 1940 harbor material, then with broader ferry, lake travel, and urban waterfront scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940s Ontario harbor view from a ferry, showing waterfront buildings, smokestacks, piers, and a distant domed tower shape. — A city harbor and skyline are framed by the ferry structure.

Passengers in silhouette sit inside a ferry on an Ontario harbor crossing, with open water, distant boats, and shoreline beyond the window. — Seated silhouettes look out from the ferry across the harbor.

Inside the ferry, two passengers appear in silhouette against an Ontario harbor view with open water, distant shoreline, and a small boat. — Passengers are silhouetted against the pale water outside the ferry.

Ontario city harbor view from the ferry, with a white passenger boat, pier structures, small tents, water, and tall buildings behind the waterfront. — A white harbor boat passes near piers below the city skyline.

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