Long Lake Canada-1939: Boating Is Take Place In River

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

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Boating Is Take Place In River — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene boating scene on Long Lake, Canada. The footage opens with a close-up of a film projector's spool, then transitions to a wide view of calm waters and a tree-lined shore. A small boat with two people glides across the lake, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century leisure. The grainy black-and-white image, with its characteristic film grain and soft focus, evokes a strong sense of historical authenticity and personal memory. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, and nostalgic projects exploring early 20th-century life.

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: 124861577

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: Yes
Audible music: No

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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 Canadian home-movie requests needing quiet boating, lake recreation, or personal travel footage for documentary and editorial use.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm look, simple small boat, wooded shoreline, and opening projector view may show late-1930s amateur filming and leisure presentation.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie feel, observing a distant boat on open water from shore or another stable vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a film projector or reel mechanism, rippled lake water, tree-lined shore, distant buildings, and a small boat with people aboard.
Film character: Soft focus, heavy grain, rounded frame edges, gate shadows, and slight exposure variation give the scan a strong original 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, lake-life cutaway, travel transition, or establishing insert for prewar Canadian leisure.
Historical context: The footage visually places everyday recreation in a wooded lakeside setting without confirming identities, exact shoreline, or the nature of the outing.
Research note: People and a visible projector brand or marking require review for likeness and trademark context, separate from copyright or footage licensing checks.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 8mm Canada lake boating, Long Lake home movie, black-and-white boating footage, and vintage waterside recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Long Lake or 1939 Canada footage, then broader vintage boating and lakeside leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close-up of a film projector or reel mechanism in black-and-white 8mm footage, with a partial marking visible on the machine. — A projector mechanism fills the frame at the start of the clip.

Long Lake, Canada, shown as rippled water with a dark tree-lined shore and small distant structures in 1939 home-movie footage. — The camera looks across the lake toward a wooded shoreline.

A wide 1939 Long Lake view shows rippled water, a low wooded shoreline, and soft 8mm frame edges. — Open water and a low forested shore dominate the frame.

A small boat carrying visible people moves across Long Lake, Canada, with wooded shore behind it in 1939 8mm footage. — A small boat with people aboard appears against the tree-lined shore.

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