Ontario Canada-1958: Lighthouse View From A Boat On A Lake

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationOntario, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Ontario Canada

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Lighthouse View From A Boat On A Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside view from a moving boat. The footage shows a distant lighthouse and coastal buildings on a grassy shore, with gentle waves rippling across the blue water. The perspective shifts slightly, suggesting movement across the lake, with a small boat visible in the distance. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, subtle color fading, and natural grain, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American lakeside memory.

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: 123611321

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1958 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Ontario, Canada Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Ontario home-movie requests needing a lakeside lighthouse view, boat-travel cutaway, or quiet shoreline establishing shot.
Period detail: The 1958 8mm color footage shows a lighthouse, low waterfront buildings, small boats, open water, and soft mid-century home-movie handling.
Home-movie behavior: The camera appears to be operated from a moving boat, giving the scene a visitor-shot shoreline perspective rather than a staged scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippling blue water, a distant lighthouse, white shore buildings, grassy shoreline, small boats, horizon line, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, exposure variation, and handheld drift characteristic of scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, waterborne transition, travel-memory beat, or establishing cutaway for lakeside Ontario material.
Historical context: The scene documents recreational viewing from the water and a maintained lighthouse shoreline without making unsupported claims about the specific site.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and property-related uses still require separate review.
Research search match: Researcher matches include 1958 Ontario 8mm lake footage, boat view of lighthouse, vintage Canadian shoreline home movie, and mid-century water travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Ontario lake material, then lighthouse, boating, shoreline, and water-travel themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Ontario 8mm frame showing a lighthouse and white shoreline buildings across rippling lake water from a moving boat. — A distant lighthouse and waterfront buildings appear beyond choppy lake water.

1958 Ontario 8mm view of a lighthouse complex and low shoreline buildings across a broad stretch of blue water. — The lighthouse remains visible on the shoreline as the boat moves across open water.

1958 Ontario 8mm frame with the camera drifting past a low shoreline, small boat, and wind-textured lake surface. — A small boat and low shoreline pass through a soft, handheld view from the water.

1958 Ontario 8mm frame showing open blue lake water, a partial passing boat, and a distant horizon under a pale sky. — The shot opens onto wider water, with only part of a boat visible at the frame edge.

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