Quebec Canada-1952: Lakeside Town from Moving Boat

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

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Lakeside Town from Moving Boat — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside town in Quebec, Canada, viewed from a moving boat. The camera glides across calm blue water, revealing a quiet settlement nestled along the shore with modest houses and trees. A forested hill rises in the background under a pale sky, framed by the dark edges of a window or boat porthole. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded colors, and a nostalgic, observational quality, evoking mid-century Canadian life and travel.

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: 123335569

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: Serves documentary and educational projects seeking 1950s Canadian lakeside community footage, usable as an establishing shot or period geography insert.
Period detail: Modest white-painted waterfront buildings and a small settled shoreline may show a typical mid-century Quebec lakeside community; colour fading and grain are consistent with 8mm film from circa 1952.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from the deck of a moving boat, the camera pans steadily along the shoreline — a classic tourist or family-vacation observational perspective with no staging.
What appears in frame: Calm blue-grey lake water, a shoreline strip of small white buildings, a sandy-coloured embankment, dense mixed forest on a low rounded hill, pale overcast sky, dark film-border vignette, and subtle film grain.
Film character: Soft colour fading with a cool blue cast over the water, visible film grain, and frame-edge vignetting give the footage the quiet nostalgic texture characteristic of scanned 8mm from the early 1950s.
Edit role: Works as an establishing or geography-setting shot in 1950s Canada documentaries, or as a landscape cutaway between archival sequences evoking postwar leisure and travel.
Historical context: The modest waterfront settlement and forested backdrop may represent a typical Quebec lakeside community of the postwar period, when boat travel and summer tourism were common family activities.
Research note: No people or recognisable faces visible in any frame; buildings are viewed from a public waterway but appear residential — standard private-property assessment is still advisable before broadcast use.
Research search match: Likely matched by searches for '1950s Canada lakeside,' 'Quebec waterfront 8mm,' 'mid-century boat POV,' or 'postwar Canadian settlement archival footage.'
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same reel or Quebec 1952 shoot; then with 1950s Canadian lake or river footage; then with boat-POV landscape shots from mid-century North America.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm footage circa 1952 — a small Quebec lakeside community seen from water level; white buildings line the shore beneath a dense forested hillside. — Quebec lakeside town viewed from a moving boat, 1952.

8mm home movie frame circa 1952, Quebec — waterfront buildings and a possible dock visible along a sandy shore beneath a heavily forested rounded hill. — Waterfront settlement, Quebec, 1952 — from moving boat.

8mm frame circa 1952, Quebec — camera has panned further along the shore, revealing a sandy embankment and sparse buildings under a broad forested hillside. — Quebec shore passing view from moving boat, 1952.

8mm footage near clip end, circa 1952 Quebec — shoreline buildings and sandy bank remain visible as the boat continues past the small settlement. — Quebec lakeside settlement, end of clip, 1952.

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