Long Lake Canada-1939: Boat Glides Across Lake with Trees

$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

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

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

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Boat Glides Across Lake with Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene view from a boat gliding across Long Lake in Canada. The black-and-white footage shows a wide expanse of water under an overcast sky, with a dense treeline forming the distant shore. The camera remains steady, offering a tranquil, observational perspective of the natural landscape. The grainy texture and soft focus are characteristic of early amateur film, evoking a sense of quiet nostalgia and historical authenticity. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or any project exploring mid-20th century life and nature.

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: 124860176

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.

Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s Canadian home-movie requests needing a quiet lake-travel view, natural landscape cutaway, or archival boating atmosphere.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm look and 1939 metadata support a late-1930s amateur-film context, while visible details are limited to lake, shore, trees, and sky.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged passenger viewpoint from a moving boat, watching the water and distant wooded shoreline rather than performing for camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled lake water, a dark wooded shoreline, low overcast sky, film gate edges, slight boat-motion framing, and occasional pale shoreline details.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and rounded frame edges give the short shot a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a calm establishing insert, lake-travel transition, memory beat, or cutaway between family or outdoor scenes.
Historical context: The view reflects recreational or travel observation of a Canadian lakeside landscape, but the frames do not identify specific landmarks or activity on shore.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable property identifiers are visible, though copyright, location, and any shoreline property questions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 8mm Canada lake footage, Long Lake home movie, boat view across water, wooded shoreline, and vintage outdoor travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Long Lake Canada material, then broader 1930s lake, boating, and forest landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 8mm view from a boat on Long Lake, Canada, showing rippled water, dense trees on shore, and a cloudy sky. — Boat-level view across Long Lake toward a wooded shoreline beneath heavy cloud cover.

A steady 1939 Long Lake boat view shows open water, a continuous wooded shoreline, and rounded 8mm frame borders. — Open lake and forested shore seen from a moving boat, with the 8mm frame edges visible.

1939 home-movie frame from Long Lake, Canada, with rippled water in front and a dark band of trees along the far shore. — Textured lake surface leads toward a continuous tree line on the far shore.

Long Lake, Canada, in 1939, seen from a boat with rippled water, wooded shore, cloudy sky, and a small indistinct light shape near shore. — Final boat-view frame across the lake, with wooded shoreline and a small indistinct pale detail near the waterline.

Visually Similar Clips