Wisconsin-1958: Ferry Sails Across Lake On A Sunny Day

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Ferry Sails Across Lake On A Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a ferry gliding across a deep blue lake under a clear sky. The footage, framed by dark borders typical of Super 8, shows the ferry moving from right to left, with a distant shoreline and a long bridge visible in the background. The water is slightly choppy, and the film exhibits natural grain and color shifts characteristic of mid-century home movies. The scene evokes a sense of calm travel and mid-century Americana, with the ferry serving as a key mode of transportation across the water.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127715780

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 1211 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: family picnic,water skiing,lake wisconsin
Reel-level year note: 1958
Reel-level location note: wisconsin
Date: 1958 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Wisconsin, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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 1950s Wisconsin travel, lake transportation, ferry service, or mid-century regional Americana sequences needing brief archival water transit footage.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage may show a mid-century ferry crossing on a Wisconsin lake, with a distant shoreline, low bridge or causeway, and open blue water as visible era context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective from shore or another vessel, observing the ferry and lake rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include choppy blue lake water, a small ferry, distant wooded shoreline, low hills, a long bridge or causeway, bright sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm home-movie texture through soft focus, saturated blue color, handheld framing, visible grain, exposure variation, and dark gate edges.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short travel insert, regional establishing cutaway, transition across water, or quiet memory beat in a 1950s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects everyday lake crossing and leisure-travel imagery, with the ferry presented as part of visible local transportation rather than a documented event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or vessel identification should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Wisconsin 8mm ferry footage, vintage lake boat crossing, mid-century home movie water travel, and sunny day ferry on lake.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Wisconsin 1958 lake or travel scenes, then broader vintage ferry and water-transportation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a small ferry on deep blue lake water, with dark film borders and a distant shore behind it. — A ferry moves across choppy blue lake water beneath a clear sky.

The ferry appears closer to the right edge of the 1958 Wisconsin lake scene, with rippled water and a dark shoreline in the distance. — The ferry continues across the lake with shoreline and hills behind it.

A soft, motion-blurred 8mm frame catches part of the ferry at the left edge, with open Wisconsin lake water and distant shoreline beyond. — The ferry slips partly out of frame as the camera holds on the lake.

The final frame shows choppy blue lake water, a distant low bridge or causeway, and a small stretch of shoreline in 1958 Wisconsin footage. — The view shifts to lake water, distant crossing structure, and shoreline.

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