Long Lake Canada-1939: A Beautiful Water Surface

$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.

Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationLong Lake, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Long Lake Canada

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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A Beautiful Water Surface — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene, grainy view of a long lake in Canada. The black-and-white footage shows a calm water surface stretching toward a distant shoreline under a pale sky. The image is framed by the dark borders of a film projector, with visible grain, dust, and scratches that highlight its age. The camera remains steady, offering a quiet, contemplative glimpse of nature from a bygone era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124859648

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: 1939 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: Long Lake, 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: Useful for 1930s Canadian home-movie requests needing a quiet natural lake view for documentary, museum, education, or editorial context.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1939 8mm home-movie view of Long Lake, with no visible buildings, vehicles, clothing, or landmarks to further identify the period.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a steady, observational view across the water, preserving the unstaged perspective of someone filming a lake from shore or a boat.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled lake water, a distant low shoreline, pale sky, dark 8mm frame edges, dust marks, and soft black-and-white exposure.
Film character: The clip has a monochrome 8mm texture with visible grain, gate edges, minor dust, and slight exposure softness consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a calm cutaway, location-establishing insert, reflective transition, or memory beat within a sequence about lakes, travel, or family archives.
Historical context: The footage offers a simple view of Canadian lakeside scenery as preserved by a private home-movie camera, without visible activity or identifiable structures.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright, location identification, and project-specific clearance needs.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 8mm Canadian lake footage, Long Lake home movie, vintage water surface, black-and-white shoreline, and 1930s nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Long Lake material, then broader vintage Canadian water, shoreline, and quiet nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 8mm home-movie frame of Long Lake, Canada, showing rippled water, a low far shore, pale sky, and dark gate borders. — A steady view across the lake toward a low distant shoreline.

Long Lake, Canada, in a 1939 8mm frame, with calm water, a low tree-lined shore, pale sky, and visible film dust. — The lake surface stretches toward a low, dark shoreline.

1939 8mm view of Long Lake, Canada, showing a calm water surface, distant shore, pale sky, and the physical edges of the film frame. — A quiet monochrome lake view with the shore running across the horizon.

Final 1939 8mm frame of Long Lake, Canada, with textured water, a low far shore, pale sky, and archival film wear visible in the scan. — Textured water fills the foreground below a low shoreline and pale sky.

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