Wisconsin-1958: Car Ferry Crossing Lake On A Sunny Day

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Car Ferry Crossing Lake On A Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a car ferry transporting vehicles across a wide body of water in Wisconsin. The footage shows a wooden barge-style ferry with several cars aboard, moving steadily through rippling blue water under a bright sky. The shoreline is visible in the distance, lined with trees and hills. The image has the characteristic grain, color shift, and soft focus of mid-century home movie footage, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century transportation and summer travel.

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: 127715817

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 transportation, summer travel, lake crossing, or mid-century home-movie cutaways in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The small car ferry, older automobiles, 8mm color stock, and simple waterfront setting support a late-1950s travel scene without identifying a specific lake or landing.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from another moving boat or shoreline position, giving the crossing an informal vacation-record perspective rather than a staged transport view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippling blue water, a low ferry or barge, several parked cars, upright dock posts, a wooded shoreline, distant hills, bright sky, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm focus, saturated blue water, mild exposure variation, gate edges, and handheld framing that read as authentic mid-century amateur film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, travel transition, regional establishing cutaway, or memory beat for lake journeys and local ferry transportation.
Historical context: The footage shows automobile travel meeting small-scale water transport, suggesting everyday recreational or local mobility in a Wisconsin lake setting.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, vessel ownership, location identification, and any property concerns should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Wisconsin 8mm car ferry, vintage lake crossing home movie, mid-century ferry with automobiles, and 1950s summer travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel lake or travel shots, then Wisconsin 1958 material, then broader mid-century ferry, boating, automobile, and summer-vacation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a small car ferry on a lake, with vehicles aboard and a dark wooded shoreline in the distance. — A small ferry with cars aboard crosses choppy water near a tree-lined shore.

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame of a low car ferry crossing a lake, with upright posts, automobiles, and distant trees visible. — Vehicles ride on a low ferry as it moves across the lake under a bright sky.

Soft 8mm Wisconsin lake view from 1958, showing a car ferry partly framed by dark film edges and a wooded shore behind it. — The ferry drifts toward the edge of the frame while the camera holds on the water and shoreline.

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame opening to a wider lake view after the ferry passes, with distant hills and shoreline under a pale sky. — The shot widens to open water with low hills and shoreline visible in the distance.

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