Long Lake Canada-1939: Garter Snake Coiled on Forest Floor

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

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Garter Snake Coiled on Forest Floor — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a common garter snake coiled on forest floor debris in Long Lake, Canada. The black-and-white footage shows the slender reptile with distinct longitudinal stripes resting among dry leaves and twigs. The grainy, high-contrast image and soft focus reflect the era's amateur cinematography. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of North American wildlife from the late 1930s, ideal for historical documentaries, nature studies, or nostalgic content.

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: 124860061

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1939 Long Lake, Canada 8mm clip supports archive requests for late-1930s North American wildlife, nature-study inserts, and home-movie environmental cutaways.
Period detail: The visible evidence is mainly the black-and-white 8mm home-movie look, with a small striped snake among leaves and twigs rather than identifiable buildings, clothing, or dated public events.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the quiet observational value of an amateur camera pausing on a small wild animal encountered at ground level.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a coiled striped garter snake, dry leaves, small twigs, forest-floor debris, soft-focus texture, and dark frame edges from the film scan.
Film character: The clip shows high-contrast black-and-white 8mm grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing that add period home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, natural-history cutaway, quiet transition, or memory beat within a 1930s outdoor or Canadian home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents an amateur view of a common small reptile in a wooded setting, offering visual context for everyday encounters with wildlife in archived family footage.
Research note: No people, faces, brands, or private structures are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any location or species-identification needs separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1939 8mm garter snake footage, Long Lake Canada wildlife home movie, black-and-white forest floor reptile, and 1930s North American nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other footage from the same reel, then with Long Lake or 1939 Canada material, and then with related wildlife, forest-floor, or amateur nature-study clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Long Lake, Canada 8mm frame showing a striped garter snake coiled on leaf litter and forest debris. — A striped garter snake rests coiled among dry leaves and twigs in a soft-focus 8mm frame.

A Long Lake, Canada home-movie frame shows the garter snake curled on a textured forest floor in black and white. — The snake remains curled on the forest floor, its pale longitudinal stripes visible against leaf litter.

Soft black-and-white 8mm footage shows a garter snake looped among leaves and forest-floor debris at Long Lake, Canada. — The coiled snake is seen closer to the lower edge of the frame, surrounded by leaves and twigs.

Final 1939 8mm frame with the striped garter snake still coiled on forest-floor litter at Long Lake, Canada. — The garter snake remains still among dry leaves and rough woodland debris in the closing frame.

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