Long Lake Canada-1939: Man Swimming Breaststroke Toward Camera

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

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Man Swimming Breaststroke Toward Camera — Clip Details

A man in a swimsuit swims toward the camera in a lake, captured on 8mm film in 1939. The grainy black-and-white footage shows him performing a breaststroke, with splashing water and ripples surrounding him. In one frame, he surfaces with an open mouth, appearing to shout or breathe. The final shot reveals a lakeside scene with people on a wooden platform near a tree stump, suggesting a casual summer outing. The footage has a nostalgic, vintage quality with natural lighting and authentic home movie texture.

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: 124861129

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: Yes
Minors 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 lakeside recreation, swimming, summer leisure, or informal outdoor sports footage.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm footage and simple swimwear may show late-1930s recreational dress and amateur filming practices at Long Lake, Canada.
Home-movie behavior: The swimmer approaches the camera directly, surfacing and splashing in an unstaged lakeside moment likely filmed by a companion.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a swimsuit, rippled lake water, splashes, breaststroke movement, a dark frame edge, and a watery lakeshore setting.
Film character: The clip has coarse 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of an original home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, recreation cutaway, summer memory beat, or transition within a sequence about lakeside leisure.
Historical context: The scene reflects casual outdoor swimming and social recreation in a Canadian lake setting without supporting claims about a named event or facility.
Research note: People and a visible face require likeness review, while copyright, location, and property questions should be assessed separately from the image content.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 8mm Canada lake swimming, vintage home movie swimmer, Long Lake Canada recreation, and 1930s summer water footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Long Lake 1939 material, then broader Canadian lake, swimming, summer outing, or home-movie recreation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 Long Lake, Canada footage, a swimmer is partly submerged in rippled water near the camera frame edge. — A swimmer moves through rippled lake water near the start of the shot.

A man swims toward the camera at Long Lake, Canada, with his face above the water and arms extended. — The swimmer surfaces facing the camera while moving forward through the lake.

The swimmer dips forward during a stroke, creating splashes in the dark rippled lake water. — The swimmer lowers his head and shoulders into the water during a stroke.

A blurred view shows the swimmer splashing near what appears to be a wooden platform or dock edge at Long Lake. — The swimmer creates a large splash near the edge of a wooden lakeside platform.

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