Canada-1979: A Lake With A Boat On It And Mountains In The Background With A

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationCanada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1979 Canada

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A Lake With A Boat On It And Mountains In The Background... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures a serene Canadian mountain lake. A small boat glides across the calm water, framed by towering snow-dusted peaks under a partly cloudy sky. The footage features classic Super 8 color grading with rich purples and greens, and the natural film grain enhances its nostalgic, archival quality. The scene transitions from a close view of the lake to a wider valley shot, showcasing dense evergreen forests and rugged mountain terrain. This authentic 1970s home movie offers a timeless glimpse of nature, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123085582

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1792 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: tent trailer,VI-09,1
Reel-level year note: 1979
Reel-level location note: canada
Date: 1979 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: Canada 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: Late-1970s Canadian 8mm mountain-lake travel footage suited to documentary inserts, nature-history sequences, or home-movie memory passages.
Period detail: The frames may show 1970s amateur travel filming through soft color reversal stock, with no visible signage, clothing, vehicles, or architecture to further date the scene.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot viewpoint, lingering on a boat, lake, snowy peaks, and forested valley rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a mountain lake, small distant boat, snow-striped peaks, partly cloudy sky, evergreen forest, valley slopes, dark frame edges, and handheld composition.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows visible grain, soft focus, purple-green color shifts, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing that read as physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic cutaway, travel transition, establishing insert, or quiet memory beat between broader Canadian landscape material.
Historical context: The footage documents recreational mountain sightseeing in Canada, with emphasis on scenery and amateur observation rather than identifiable public events.
Research note: Copyright, source ownership, and any likeness questions for the distant boat occupants should be reviewed separately; no logos or private property are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1979 Canada 8mm mountain lake footage, vintage home movie boat on alpine lake, and 1970s Canadian Rockies-style landscape travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1979 Canada mountain or lake footage, then broader vintage alpine travel and wilderness home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 Canadian 8mm frame showing a distant boat on a calm mountain lake beneath snow-streaked peaks and clouds. — A small boat crosses a mountain lake beneath snow-striped peaks.

Canadian mountain lake scene on 8mm film, with a small boat near the far shore and snowy peaks behind it. — The boat remains small against the lake and mountain backdrop.

1979 Canadian 8mm view of a forested valley leading toward rugged mountain peaks under scattered clouds. — A wider valley view shows dense forest and distant mountain peaks.

Canadian 8mm travel frame with evergreen-covered slopes, a mountain valley, and pale clouds over distant peaks. — Evergreen slopes frame a distant mountain valley under bright clouds.

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