Canada-1979: Sun Shining Through Clouds On A Placid Lake Surrounding A Beautiful Mountain Landscape

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationCanada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1979 Canada

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Sun Shining Through Clouds On A Placid Lake Surrounding... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures a serene Canadian landscape. A placid lake reflects the surrounding evergreen forest and towering snow-dusted mountains under a cloudy sky. Sunlight breaks through the clouds, creating a soft glow on the peaks and water. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, framed by dark borders typical of home movie footage. This archival clip evokes nostalgia and the timeless beauty of nature, ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or historical presentations.

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: 123091888

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing late-1970s Canadian home-movie nature footage as an atmospheric landscape insert for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The visible period clues are mainly the 8mm home-movie format, soft color, dark frame edges, and grain; the landscape itself is not date-specific.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects a quiet visitor-shot viewpoint, holding on a lake and mountain vista rather than staging people or action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a placid lake, dark evergreen shoreline, snow-dusted mountains, cloudy sky, breaks of sunlight, tree silhouettes, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has a physical 8mm look with soft focus, visible grain, modest exposure shifts, muted color, and dark edge framing from the film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a nature cutaway, reflective transition, travel-memory beat, or establishing insert for Canadian landscape context.
Historical context: The scene documents recreational or travel observation of a Canadian mountain lake, without visible people, buildings, vehicles, or identifiable landmarks in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright, location identification, and project-specific clearance needs.
Research search match: Research matches include 1979 8mm Canada mountain lake, vintage home movie alpine landscape, snow peaks over lake, and cloudy scenic nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Canadian 1979 landscape material, and then with broader vintage lake, mountain, forest, or travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 8mm Canadian home-movie frame showing a calm lake, evergreen shoreline, and snow-dusted mountains beneath clouds. — A still lake and dark treeline sit below snow-marked mountains in cloudy light.

Canadian 8mm home-movie view of snow-streaked peaks, dark evergreen forest, and a calm lake surface framed by trees. — Snow-streaked peaks appear across the lake, partly framed by dark trees.

1979 8mm Canadian landscape frame with bright cloud cover over mountains, evergreen shore, and gently rippled lake water. — Bright cloud breaks hang over the mountain ridge and shaded lakeshore.

Vintage 8mm Canadian lake view with muted sunlight, a dark evergreen shore, and snow-marked mountains under cloud. — Muted sunlight reaches the lake below a dark forest and snow-marked mountain range.

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