Canada-1979: A View Of A Mountain And A Body Of Water

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationCanada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1979 Canada

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A View Of A Mountain And A Body Of Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures a serene Canadian landscape. A calm lake reflects the overcast sky, framed by dark evergreen trees in the foreground. In the distance, a rugged mountain peak rises dramatically against a cloudy backdrop, its rocky face partially illuminated. The footage exhibits natural film grain and a slightly faded color palette, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The camera remains steady, offering a contemplative view of nature's grandeur.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123086136

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 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: 1979 Canadian 8mm landscape footage suited to documentary inserts, nature cutaways, travel-memory sequences, and archival transitions.
Period detail: The frames may show late-1970s amateur color reversal film characteristics, with no visible vehicles, clothing, signage, or built landmarks to further date the scene.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, lingering on a lake, tree silhouettes, and a distant mountain without people or directed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippling lake water, evergreen branches, a rugged mountain ridge, cloudy sky, dark shoreline, and soft distant forest.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and rounded frame edges consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm establishing insert, scenic cutaway, memory beat, or transition within a Canadian travel or nature sequence.
Historical context: The scene records a recreational landscape view from a home-movie camera rather than an identifiable public event or documented landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright, location identification, and production-specific property concerns.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1979 Canada 8mm lake mountain, vintage home movie mountain lake, Canadian landscape footage, and 1970s scenic travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Canada 1979 landscape material, then with broader vintage mountain, lake, and travel themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 Canadian 8mm frame showing rippling lake water and a soft distant shoreline, with muted color and visible film grain. — Close view of rippling lake water with a faint wooded shore beyond.

1979 Canadian 8mm landscape view of a rugged mountain rising beyond a lake, with evergreen branches at the frame edge. — Rugged mountain and cloudy sky seen across a lake through dark evergreen branches.

Canadian 1979 home-movie frame showing a mountain ridge over a lakeshore, partly framed by dark trees and overcast sky. — Mountain ridge and lake shoreline framed by silhouetted trees under heavy clouds.

1979 Canadian 8mm frame of a mountain across a lake, with dark foreground trees and a cloudy sky in faded color. — Wide scenic view of mountain, lake, dark trees, and clouded sky.

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