British Columbia Canada-1979: A Somber View Of Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationBritish Columbia, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1979 British Columbia Canada

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A Somber View Of Franklin D — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures a somber, wide-angle view of Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake in British Columbia, Canada. The footage shows a vast, still lake surrounded by rolling hills under an overcast sky, with a distinct sign for the Columbia Basin Project visible. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and surface scratches typical of Super 8 home movies from the era, conveying a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere of a remote natural landscape.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123108505

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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: British Columbia, 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: Useful for 1970s editorial requests needing quiet 8mm lake, reservoir, or remote landscape footage for documentary transitions and archival atmosphere.
Period detail: The roadside sign and faded 8mm color may show a late-1970s visitor view of Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake and the Columbia Basin Project area.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a traveler-shot viewpoint, lingering on the broad lake and then the informational sign without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a still lake, rolling dry hills, cloudy sky, scrubby foreground, dark film borders, and a roadside lake sign.
Film character: The footage carries home-movie texture through soft focus, handheld framing, muted color, grain, scratches, and uneven exposure.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a somber landscape insert, geographic cutaway, memory beat, or transition into a sequence about water, travel, or regional history.
Historical context: The frames place emphasis on reservoir landscape and public viewing infrastructure rather than people, events, or identifiable private activity.
Research note: No people are visible, but the readable public sign and the metadata-location mismatch should be reviewed for identification, copyright, and property-context questions.
Research search match: Searches such as 1970s 8mm Roosevelt Lake, Columbia Basin Project sign, overcast reservoir landscape, and vintage home movie lake view may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then with 1979 or same-location lake footage, and then with broader reservoir, dam, or overcast landscape themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 8mm home-movie view of a broad lake below low hills, with a scrubby foreground and overcast sky. — A distant lake sits beneath dark hills and cloud cover in a soft, faded 8mm frame.

Faded 8mm frame of the lake landscape, showing surface scratches, cloudy sky, and distant hills. — Scratches cross the sky above the still lake and low hills.

Underexposed 8mm view of the reservoir landscape, with hills, water, dry brush, and blue vertical film streaks. — A darker exposure holds on the lake and ridge line, with visible film streaking.

Roadside sign for Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake appears beside bright water and distant hills in the 1979 8mm footage. — A public sign for Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake stands near the water, partly overexposed by the sun.

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