Quebec Canada-1952: Lakeside Town View From Boat

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

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Lakeside Town View From Boat — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a serene waterfront view from a moving boat in Quebec, Canada. The camera glides past a quiet lakeside settlement with modest white buildings, a prominent house with a red roof, and small docks along the shore. The scene is framed by dark borders, showing natural film grain and slight blurriness typical of Super 8 footage. A small wooded island appears in the final frames, adding to the peaceful, nostalgic atmosphere of a mid-century Canadian lakeside community.

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: 123335596

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: 1950s Quebec waterfront b-roll for regional history documentaries, Canadian travel retrospectives, or postwar small-town life sequences.
Period detail: Faded color palette and soft focus of the 8mm stock are consistent with early-1950s film; the white multi-story building and modest waterfront structures may show a small Quebec lakeside settlement.
Home-movie behavior: Shot casually from a moving boat panning across the waterfront without staging — a characteristic tourist or vacationer's-eye record of a passing shoreline.
What appears in frame: Calm open water, white multi-story building with red-brown roof, smaller waterfront structures, low rocky shoreline, wooded island in final frames, pale hazy sky, dark film borders.
Film character: Visible grain, gentle soft focus, and faded color saturation give the footage the warm, slightly diffuse quality characteristic of color 8mm shot in the early 1950s.
Edit role: Works as a slow establishing shot or lake-approach transition in documentary sequences covering postwar Canadian rural or small-town life.
Historical context: The waterfront buildings may reflect mid-century Quebec lakeside settlement patterns; the specific community cannot be confirmed from visual evidence alone.
Research note: No people or commercial signage visible; buildings are shown at distance from a public waterway, but specific property ownership is unconfirmed — standard archival diligence applies.
Research search match: 1950s Quebec Canada boat waterfront vintage 8mm home movie; postwar Canadian lakeside town; mid-century Quebec color film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same reel; then Quebec or Canadian waterfront footage from the 1950s; then boat-POV or lake-approach shots in postwar North American home movie collections.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm color footage, c.1952, Quebec, Canada — calm water in foreground, white multi-story building with red-brown roof and adjacent waterfront structures on a distant shore. — Quebec waterfront from boat, c.1952.

8mm color footage, c.1952, Quebec — boat drifts past a waterfront cluster of white buildings, the largest with a red-brown roof, on calm water. — Quebec shoreline buildings seen from moving boat, c.1952.

8mm color footage, c.1952, Quebec — rocky low-lying shoreline enters foreground as boat moves closer; white multi-story building with red-brown roof remains central. — Rocky shoreline emerges in foreground as boat approaches the Quebec settlement, c.1952.

8mm color footage, c.1952, Quebec — densely wooded island or promontory enters frame at right as boat continues past; white building with red-brown roof at center-left. — Wooded island appears as boat continues past the Quebec waterfront, c.1952.

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