Jamestown Virginia-1962: Classic Car Boarding Ocean City Ferry

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationJamestown, Virginia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Classic Car Boarding Ocean City Ferry — Clip Details

JAMESTOWN VIRGINIA-1962: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a classic white American car driving onto the Ocean City ferry, its rounded tailfins and chrome details reflecting the era's automotive design. The ferry's white superstructure and control tower loom overhead as the vehicle enters the loading ramp, with the vessel's name visible on the side. The final shot shows the ferry at a distance on calm waters, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century transportation and leisure travel. Shot on 8mm film, the footage features natural grain, soft focus, and authentic color tones characteristic of 1960s home movies.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125292967

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 2540 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: washington dc, jamestown
Date: 1962 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Jamestown, Virginia, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 1960s transportation, vacation travel, ferry loading, and mid-century American car inserts in documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The rounded tailfins, chrome trim, open ferry ramp, and white pilot house support an early-1960s travel setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a traveler’s position on or beside the ferry ramp, giving the clip an unstaged visitor-shot perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white classic car, ferry ramp structure, railings, white ferry superstructure, pilot house windows, water, and a distant ferry view.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing consistent with home-movie travel footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for ferry travel, road trips, or mid-century vacation movement.
Historical context: The clip shows automobile ferry travel as a practical leisure and transport scene before later highway and bridge-centered travel patterns dominated many routes.
Research note: A vessel name or signage may be present but is not clearly readable here; review for trademark, copyright, and location/property questions separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1960s 8mm ferry footage, classic car boarding ferry, Jamestown Virginia travel film, and mid-century coastal transportation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel shots, then Jamestown or Virginia 1962 material, then broader ferry, road trip, and classic car footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Jamestown, Virginia home-movie frame showing a white classic car boarding a ferry beneath the vessel’s pilot house. — A white classic car lines up on the ferry ramp below the ferry’s white superstructure.

A white early-1960s car moves into the ferry loading area, framed by ramp structure and the pilot house above. — The car advances into the ferry, with the pilot house and loading structure visible overhead.

Close home-movie view of a white classic car near the ferry railings during boarding in the Jamestown travel sequence. — A closer ramp-side view shows the car entering the ferry beside railings and structural supports.

Distant view of a ferry on calm water, closing the 1962 Jamestown travel home-movie sequence. — The ferry appears far out on the water in a soft, grainy closing shot.

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