Alaska-1946: Winter Lake With Mountains And Telephone Pole

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationAlaska, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Alaska

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Winter Lake With Mountains And Telephone Pole — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a serene winter landscape in Alaska. A snow-covered lake stretches across the frame, bordered by dark evergreen trees and distant hills. A prominent telephone pole stands in the foreground, with power lines cutting across the purple-tinged sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The camera remains steady, offering a quiet, contemplative view of a remote Alaskan winter scene, perfect for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific visuals.

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: 124550420

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 1178 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: 2
Reel-level year note: 1946
Reel-level location note: alaska
Date: 1946 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: Alaska, United States 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1940s Alaska winter landscape footage suited to documentary inserts, geographic context, or quiet period atmosphere around remote northern travel and settlement.
Period detail: The telephone pole, overhead wires, 8mm home-movie format, and subdued winter lakeside view support a mid-1940s archival reading without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The steady framing suggests a home-movie operator pausing to record a scenic roadside or lakeside view rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a snow-edged lake, wooded hills, evergreen trees, a foreground telephone pole, overhead wires, bare shrubs, and purple-tinted winter sky.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm grain, soft focus, slight frame-edge vignetting, and color shift that read as physical-film texture from an original home-movie source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a winter establishing insert, quiet transition, location cutaway, or reflective memory beat in a sequence about Alaska or northern landscapes.
Historical context: The scene shows a sparsely developed winter lakeshore with utility lines crossing the view, offering visual context for mid-century infrastructure near natural terrain.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or apparent private interiors are visible, but copyright status and any location or property implications should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1940s Alaska winter lake 8mm, vintage home movie telephone pole snow, northern landscape cutaway, and archival lake hills footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Alaska material from 1946, and then with broader winter lake, mountain, utility-line, or northern travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Alaska 8mm frame showing a winter lake, dark wooded hills, overhead wires, and a telephone pole in the foreground. — A telephone pole and wires stand before a frozen or snow-edged lake and wooded hillside.

1946 Alaska home-movie frame with a still winter lake, distant wooded slope, shoreline snow, and a utility pole near the right side. — A quiet lakeshore view is crossed by overhead utility lines and a pole near the foreground.

1946 Alaska 8mm frame showing a snowy shoreline, dark trees, calm lake water, and a telephone pole partly near the right edge. — The camera holds on the lake and wooded hill, with the telephone pole shifted toward the frame edge.

1946 Alaska home-movie frame of a winter lake and wooded hill, with overhead wires visible and foreground brush near the lower edge. — A still winter lake and distant wooded hillside fill the frame beneath thin overhead wires.

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