Ontario Canada-1940: Passenger Ferries Floating On Water With City Skyline

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Passenger Ferries Floating On Water With City Skyline — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1940, this vintage home movie captures a serene waterfront scene in Ontario, Canada. The clip shows several large passenger ferries and boats floating on calm water, with a city skyline featuring prominent buildings in the background. The footage has a soft, nostalgic quality with natural color tones and visible film grain, characteristic of mid-20th century home movies. The camera remains steady, observing the vessels as they pass along the waterway, offering a glimpse into mid-century transportation and urban life.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124763680

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: 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 editorial or documentary requests needing Ontario waterfront transportation, passenger ferries, and urban shoreline atmosphere from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frame may show mid-century passenger ferries and a built-up Ontario waterfront, with skyline forms and vessel styling consistent with the supplied 1940 dating.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot waterfront viewpoint, observing ferries from across the water without staged action or visible posing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include broad water, white passenger ferries, dockside structures, a tall tower-like building, urban rooftops, and soft distant skyline detail.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, mild gate edges, muted color, and steady home-movie framing that preserve the physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing cutaway, transportation insert, waterfront transition, or memory beat for Canadian urban life.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for passenger boat traffic and waterfront infrastructure in an Ontario city setting without identifying specific routes or events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are apparent, but users should still assess copyright, location identification, vessel ownership, and any property issues separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1940 Ontario waterfront ferry footage, vintage Canadian passenger boats, 8mm city skyline, and home-movie harbor scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Ontario 1940 waterfront material, then broader vintage ferry and urban shoreline clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940 Ontario waterfront view with white passenger ferries, calm water, and a soft city skyline in the background. — Passenger ferries sit or move along the waterfront below a distant city skyline.

Ontario waterfront scene showing multiple passenger ferries across the water with mid-century urban buildings beyond. — Multiple passenger ferries line the far shore beneath a hazy skyline.

A large white passenger ferry passes closer to camera on an Ontario waterfront, with other ferries and city buildings behind. — A closer ferry crosses the foreground while other boats remain near the shore.

White passenger ferry moving across the water, backed by Ontario waterfront buildings and a soft 1940 home-movie skyline. — A passenger ferry moves across the frame with the urban waterfront behind it.

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