Long Lake Canada-1939: Two Men Swimming in Lake, One Standing in Water

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

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Two Men Swimming in Lake, One Standing in Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures two men swimming in Long Lake, Canada. The black-and-white footage shows one man actively swimming while the other stands in the water, creating ripples and splashes. Both wear classic 1930s swim trunks, and the grainy texture and film borders evoke a nostalgic, archival feel. The natural, unscripted moment reflects mid-century leisure and outdoor recreation.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & 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: 124861446

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s home-movie requests needing Canadian lake swimming, men's recreation, or summer leisure footage for documentary, museum, education, or period montage use.
Period detail: The men's high-waisted swim trunks, black-and-white 8mm look, and metadata-supported 1939 date place the scene in late-1930s outdoor leisure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged lakeside moment as one man stands in shallow water while another swims nearby, with casual movement and no posed performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two men in swim trunks, lake water, ripples, splashes, soft shoreline texture, rounded film-frame edges, and a contact-sheet divider.
Film character: The footage has pronounced grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and handheld home-movie framing that read as physical 8mm archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, memory beat, recreation cutaway, or transition within sequences about summer, swimming, travel, or family leisure.
Historical context: The scene visually documents informal male recreation at a Canadian lake in 1939, without enough visual evidence to identify the people or exact site within Long Lake.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed separately from copyright status; no logos, brands, private property, or minors are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Long Lake Canada swimming, 1930s men in lake, vintage 8mm home movie water recreation, and black-and-white summer leisure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Long Lake Canada footage, then broader 1930s swimming, lake recreation, or summer travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Long Lake home-movie frame showing two men partly submerged in lake water with ripples and rounded 8mm borders. — Two men swim in open lake water, partly obscured by the aged film frame.

At Long Lake, Canada, one man in dark swim trunks stands in the water as another man swims beside him. — A standing swimmer and a nearby swimmer create ripples and splashes in the lake.

Black-and-white 8mm frame showing mostly lake water, with a partial swimmer near the top edge and visible film-frame borders. — The camera drifts across rippling lake water with only part of a swimmer visible.

Final 8mm frame from Long Lake showing textured water and ripples, with the swimmers mostly out of view. — The shot settles on the lake surface as the swimmers move out of the frame.

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