Quebec Canada-1952: Beautiful View Of The Surrounding Water Area With Beautiful

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationQuebec, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1951 Canada

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Beautiful View Of The Surrounding Water Area With Beautiful — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a serene waterfront view of a small town nestled along a lake or river in Quebec, Canada. The camera, likely handheld from a boat or dock, offers a steady, wide-angle perspective of the shoreline, where modest houses and buildings are surrounded by dense green trees. Rolling hills rise in the background under a clear sky, with gentle ripples on the water's surface. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and slightly faded colors. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about 1950s Canadian life.

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: 123335548

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 1570 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: dr. mc petersen
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: florida,washington dc,canada
Date: 1952 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: Quebec, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Documentary editors or archive researchers seeking 1950s rural Quebec waterfront establishing shots for Canadian history or regional lifestyle productions.
Period detail: Muted color palette, modest mid-century buildings along the shore, and visible film grain suggest 1950s amateur filmmaking; no anachronistic elements are apparent.
Home-movie behavior: The wide, static-to-slow-pan framing from water level suggests a vacationer or local documenting a scenic view from a boat or dock.
What appears in frame: Open water in the foreground, tree-lined shoreline with scattered modest buildings, a tall cylindrical structure possibly a silo or tower, dense green forest, rolling wooded hills, and a pale clear sky.
Film character: 8mm grain, slightly faded warm tones, and soft horizon focus give the footage the hallmark texture of amateur 1950s color film stocks.
Edit role: Works as a wide establishing shot or location cutaway in a documentary sequence about mid-century Canadian rural or lakeside life.
Historical context: The modest waterfront buildings and surrounding forest reflect the character of small Quebec towns in the early 1950s before postwar suburban expansion accelerated.
Research note: No individuals are identifiable in these frames; buildings are viewed from open water; specific municipal or property identification has not been confirmed.
Research search match: 1950s Quebec Canada lakeside town 8mm home movie, vintage Canadian waterfront establishing shot, mid-century rural Quebec color film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from this reel or a Quebec 1952 collection; then with 1950s Canadian waterfront footage; then with mid-century North American lakeside landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm color shot from water level looking toward a small Quebec lakeside settlement amid dense forest, with rolling hills beyond, circa 1952. — Quebec waterfront, circa 1952 — view from water toward wooded shoreline with scattered buildings.

Second 8mm frame of a Quebec lakeside community from water level, showing modest buildings set against dense forest and gentle hills, circa 1952. — Quebec lakeside town, 1952 — buildings amid forest along the far shore seen from water.

Wider 8mm view with expanded sky and open water; Quebec lakeside settlement visible along the treeline in the lower portion of the frame, circa 1952. — Quebec waterfront wider view, circa 1952 — sky and open water dominate as the shoreline recedes.

Closing 8mm frame of a small Quebec lakeside community from water, forested hills behind the settlement under a clear summer sky, circa 1952. — Quebec lakeside settlement, circa 1952 — closing wide shot from water with sky predominating.

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