Wisconsin-1964: Ferry Boat On Water With American Flag During Daytime Clear Sky

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Wisconsin

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Ferry Boat On Water With American Flag During Daytime... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a ferry boat navigating calm waters under a clear blue sky. The vessel, featuring a white pilothouse and dark hull, carries vehicles and passengers across a river or lake, with lush green trees lining the distant shore. An American flag flies prominently from the mast, and the footage is framed by the dark borders of a projector gate, enhancing its authentic 1960s home movie aesthetic. The camera remains steady, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century transportation and leisure in Wisconsin.

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: 127602957

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: Yes
Minors 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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1964 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: Wisconsin, United States 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s Wisconsin home-movie ferry footage suited for documentary inserts on regional transportation, summer travel, river crossings, or mid-century leisure scenes.
Period detail: The 8mm frames show a small vehicle ferry with a white pilothouse, dark loading ramp, American flag, older cars, and a clear open-water setting consistent with the supplied 1964 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from shore or a nearby vessel as the ferry approaches and passes, giving the clip the unstaged viewpoint of a traveler documenting a routine crossing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a ferry boat, raised pilothouse, dark bow ramp, American flag, blue signal flag, cars on deck, passengers, calm water, wooded shoreline, and blue sky.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, saturated sky color, slight gate framing, and home-movie exposure shifts that support its physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a transportation cutaway, regional travel insert, water-crossing transition, or quiet memory beat within a 1960s Wisconsin sequence.
Historical context: The clip shows everyday ferry movement across Wisconsin water, with vehicles and passengers aboard, suggesting local travel infrastructure and recreation without identifying a specific route.
Research note: People and a vessel name or marking appear visible, so likeness, trademark, and location identification should be reviewed separately from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1964 Wisconsin 8mm ferry boat, American flag on ferry, vintage home movie water crossing, and mid-century vehicle ferry footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Wisconsin travel scenes, then other 1964 regional waterfront footage, then broader 1960s ferry, boat, lake, and transportation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Wisconsin 8mm frame of a vehicle ferry on calm water, showing its pilothouse, bow ramp, cars, and distant green shoreline. — Vehicle ferry approaches across calm water with cars on deck and trees in the distance.

1964 Wisconsin home-movie frame showing a vehicle ferry from the front, with deck rails, cars, pilothouse, water, and distant trees. — The ferry is seen head-on as it moves over the water with vehicles visible along the deck.

1964 Wisconsin 8mm frame focused on the ferry pilothouse, mast, American flag, blue flag, railing, and clear blue sky. — American and blue flags fly above the ferry pilothouse in a close, upward-angled view.

1964 Wisconsin home-movie frame of the ferry cabin roof, mast, American flag, dark blue flag, deck railing, and possible vessel lettering. — Flags and upper ferry structure fill the frame, with partial lettering visible on the pilothouse sign.

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