Ontario Canada-1940: Country Road With Autumn Colored Leaves On Trees And Plants

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1940
Decade1940s
LocationOntario, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1940 Canada

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Country Road With Autumn Colored Leaves On Trees And Plants — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1940, this vintage home movie captures a quiet country road winding through a forest in Ontario, Canada, during autumn. Sunlight filters through trees displaying vibrant yellow, orange, and red foliage, with a dirt path stretching into the distance. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and a nostalgic, peaceful atmosphere. The camera moves forward along the road, offering a first-person perspective of a serene fall day in the countryside. This archival clip evokes mid-century vintage and is ideal for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, and period-specific projects.

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: 124764062

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: 1940 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1940s Ontario 8mm home-movie footage suited to documentary inserts needing a rural autumn road or seasonal Canadian countryside view.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century rural road scene, with no vehicles, signage, buildings, or fashions visible to further date the setting.
Home-movie behavior: The forward-looking camera position gives the clip the feel of a traveler or family member filming scenery from a road in an unstaged home-movie moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale country road, dense roadside trees, autumn foliage, brush, blue or bright sky, and soft shadows.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows warm color, visible grain, slight softness, gate edges, and exposure shifts that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural travel insert, seasonal transition, memory beat, or quiet cutaway between Ontario or autumn sequences.
Historical context: The clip documents a wooded country-road view in Ontario, emphasizing seasonal landscape rather than identifiable public events or named landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private property are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any underlying collection permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s Ontario home movie, 8mm autumn country road, rural Canada fall foliage, and vintage forest road footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1940 Ontario road or landscape clips, then broader rural autumn travel and forest foliage material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940 Ontario 8mm frame showing a quiet rural road lined with autumn-colored trees and dry roadside grasses. — A country road passes between trees with early autumn color.

1940 Ontario 8mm frame focused on yellow and red foliage with dense brush along a wooded rural roadside. — Roadside woodland fills the frame with yellow, red, and green leaves.

1940 Ontario 8mm frame showing layered roadside brush and trees with warm autumn foliage and soft film exposure. — Autumn brush and trees appear close to the camera along the roadside.

1940 Ontario 8mm frame looking toward autumn-colored treetops against a bright sky near the wooded road. — The camera tilts toward bright sky and autumn treetops.

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