Long Lake Canada-1939: Black And White Footage Of Birdhouse And Car

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

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Black And White Footage Of Birdhouse And Car — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a quiet woodland scene in Long Lake, Canada. The footage begins with a dense forest view, then reveals a classic car driving along a dirt road. A sign for the Blue Bird Cottage, owned by J.M. Edworthy, is clearly visible, nestled among the trees. The black and white imagery, with natural film grain and soft focus, evokes a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic slice of mid-20th century life offers rich material for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124859767

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
Audible music: No

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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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1939 Long Lake 8mm clip supports requests for late-1930s woodland travel, roadside cottage signage, and period car cutaways in documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The older automobile, dirt road, hand-painted cottage sign, and black-and-white 8mm texture may show a prewar Canadian lake-road setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the roadside and cottage sign from a casual traveler perspective, preserving an unstaged glimpse of a wooded stop or approach road.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dense trees, a dirt road, roadside signs, a parked or approaching car, a cottage notice board, undergrowth, and film-frame edges.
Film character: Soft focus, coarse grain, uneven exposure, and visible frame borders give the clip a tactile 8mm home-movie record of place.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, rural memory beat, or cutaway for 1930s cottage-country material.
Historical context: The clip visually situates leisure or travel around a wooded lake road without confirming activity beyond the sign, road, car, and surrounding forest.
Research note: No people are visible, but the readable Blue Bird Cottage and J.M. Edworthy signage should be reviewed for trademark, property, and identification concerns.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1939 Long Lake Canada home movie, black-and-white 8mm woodland road, vintage cottage sign, and 1930s car on dirt road.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Long Lake material, then other 1939 Canada clips, then broader 1930s woodland travel or cottage-road footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Long Lake home-movie frame showing a quiet wooded area with tree trunks, brush, soft focus, and visible film borders. — Woodland view along the Long Lake roadside at the start of the clip.

Black-and-white 1939 Long Lake frame with a dirt road, wooded verge, roadside signs, and a vintage car in the distance. — A car appears on a dirt road bordered by trees and roadside signs.

Long Lake roadside view from 1939 with a vintage car on a dirt lane, trees on both sides, and small signs near the road. — The road scene opens wider, showing the car and signs within the wooded setting.

1939 Long Lake frame showing the Blue Bird Cottage sign for J.M. Edworthy among trees, with a small box or birdhouse below. — A roadside sign identifies Blue Bird Cottage and J.M. Edworthy among the trees.

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