Long Lake Canada-1939: Black And White Film Of Trees Around A Rippling Lake

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

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Black And White Film Of Trees Around A Rippling Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene black and white view of Long Lake in Canada. The camera glides across the rippling water, revealing a dense forest of evergreen trees lining the shoreline. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and natural light, evoking a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere. This archival clip offers a peaceful glimpse into mid-20th century Canadian nature, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124860234

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: 1930s Canadian home-movie nature footage suited to documentary inserts, landscape cutaways, or quiet archival transitions.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm image and soft handheld framing support the 1939 home-movie attribution, with no visible landmarks to further identify the lake.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the shoreline from across rippling water, giving the clip an unstaged traveler or family-film view of the lake landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippling lake water, a wooded shoreline, evergreen and deciduous trees, pale sky, soft focus, and frame-edge gate shadows.
Film character: The clip has pronounced 8mm grain, slight blur, uneven exposure, and dark frame borders that read as physical-film texture from a scanned home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a reflective nature cutaway, a location-establishing insert, or a memory beat between travel or family-history scenes.
Historical context: The footage documents a quiet lakeside view in Canada before later shoreline development is visible in these frames, though the exact site is not visually confirmed.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should separately assess copyright status and any location-identification needs.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1939 Canada 8mm lake footage, black-and-white Long Lake home movie, vintage Canadian forest shoreline, and rippling water archival clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1939 Long Lake or Canadian lake material, then with broader vintage forest-and-water scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Black-and-white 1939 8mm view of Long Lake, Canada, showing rippling water and a tree-lined shore. — Rippling lake water faces a dense wooded shoreline.

Black-and-white Long Lake view with dense forest along the far shore and rippled water in the foreground. — Forest lines the far side of the rippling lake.

1939 8mm home-movie frame showing Long Lake water with layered trees and shoreline vegetation beyond. — A soft-focus lake view shows trees and shoreline vegetation.

Black-and-white Canadian lake frame with rippling water, dense trees, and visible 8mm frame-edge shadows. — Rippling water fills the foreground below a dense tree line.

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