Quebec Canada-1946: River Bordered by Green Trees and Blue Water

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationQuebec, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Quebec Canada

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River Bordered by Green Trees and Blue Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of a wide river or lake from a moving boat. The frame is bordered by dark edges, suggesting a window or viewfinder. Blue water ripples in the foreground, with a dense treeline of green trees along the distant shore under a bright, clear sky. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight motion blur, and subtle color shifts typical of mid-century amateur film, evoking a nostalgic, peaceful summer day in Quebec.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124603920

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: 1946 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: Quebec, 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 requests needing 1940s Quebec home-movie scenery, especially quiet river or lake views for documentary inserts, travel context, or memory sequences.
Period detail: The color 8mm home-movie look and metadata-supported 1946 Quebec setting place the clip in the postwar 1940s, though no landmark or dated object is visible.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged boat-passenger viewpoint, watching rippled blue water and wooded shoreline drift past on a sunny day.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include choppy blue water, a dense green treeline, pale sky, distant shoreline, dark frame edges, and contact-sheet borders.
Film character: The clip shows soft focus, visible grain, slight motion blur, uneven exposure, and color shifts consistent with mid-century amateur 8mm filming.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a scenic cutaway, travel transition, establishing insert, or reflective memory beat between human or location-centered scenes.
Historical context: The view records a quiet outdoor leisure perspective in Quebec, emphasizing landscape and movement rather than identifiable buildings, people, or events.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, location confirmation, and any shoreline property implications should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 Quebec 8mm river footage, vintage home movie lake view, moving boat shoreline, blue water and green trees, and 1940s Canadian travel scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Quebec 1946 material, then with other vintage boat, water, shoreline, and summer landscape scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Quebec 8mm frame showing blue water, distant trees, pale sky, and dark borders from a moving boat viewpoint. — Blue water and a wooded shoreline appear beyond dark frame edges in the opening still.

1946 Quebec 8mm view of rippled blue water and dense green trees along a low shoreline. — A low wooded shore stretches across the frame beyond rippled blue water.

1946 Quebec home-movie still showing a green wooded bank beyond moving blue water. — The shoreline remains centered as the camera moves past blue water and dense trees.

1946 Quebec 8mm frame with rippled water in front and a wooded shore under bright sky. — Ripples fill the foreground while the wooded bank recedes across the background.

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