Quebec Canada-1952: Lakeside Town View From Water With Green Hills

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

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Lakeside Town View From Water With Green Hills — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside town in Quebec, Canada, viewed from across the water. The frame is bordered by dark film edges, with a calm blue lake in the foreground and a small settlement of houses nestled along the shore. Lush green trees and rolling hills form a natural backdrop under a pale sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur. This archival clip offers authentic period atmosphere for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123335557

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

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: Suits requests for 1950s Canadian small-town or rural Quebec landscape footage for documentary, educational, or historical productions needing period waterside atmosphere.
Period detail: White clapboard-style buildings along a lakeside shore and dense mixed-forest treeline may reflect mid-20th-century rural Quebec settlement patterns consistent with the 1952 date.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from water or a vessel, the static wide-angle framing suggests a tourist or family visitor capturing the shoreline panorama as a personal geographic record.
What appears in frame: Calm blue lake in foreground, row of small white and light-coloured buildings along shore, dense mixed-forest treeline, rounded forested ridge, pale sky, dark film-edge borders, gentle water ripple.
Film character: Moderate 8mm grain, slight colour fading toward muted blues and greens, and stable static framing give the footage the warm, unhurried texture of mid-century home-movie travel records.
Edit role: Works as an establishing or transitional wide shot for a segment set in rural or lakeside Quebec, or as a geographic cutaway anchoring a documentary sequence in 1950s Canada.
Historical context: The modest waterfront settlement and surrounding forest reflect the character of small lakeside communities in post-war rural Quebec, though the specific town is not identifiable from the frame.
Research note: No identifiable individuals or minors appear; no visible logos or trademarks; buildings are distant exterior views — standard archival licensing applies, but territorial rights and sync use should be confirmed with the rights holder.
Research search match: Researchers may find this via queries such as '1950s Quebec lake town', 'vintage Canada waterfront home movie', '8mm rural Canada 1952', or 'post-war Quebec small-town landscape'.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same reel or location (Quebec, 1952); then with similar 1950s Canadian lakeside or rural footage; then with broader post-war North American small-town landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 8mm home movie frame showing a small Quebec lakeside settlement from across the water, with dense mixed forest and rolling hills behind. — Lakeside town viewed from water, Quebec, c. 1952.

1952 8mm home movie of a Quebec lakeside town seen from water, with forested hills and rows of small white buildings along shore. — Shoreline settlement and forested hills from across the lake, c. 1952.

1952 Quebec home movie frame showing lakeside town buildings more prominently, with mixed forest rising behind the settlement. — Closer waterfront view of the lakeside town, Quebec, c. 1952.

1952 8mm home movie frame of a small Quebec lakeside town with a possible dock structure at the shore and dense forested hills behind. — Lakeside town with possible dock at shore, Quebec, c. 1952.

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