Montreal Canada-1967: Vintage Film Depicting A Coastal Water Way And Industrial Lock System

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Year1967
Decade1960s
LocationMontreal, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1967 Montreal Canada

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Vintage Film Depicting A Coastal Water Way And... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1967, this vintage home movie captures a coastal waterway in Montreal, Canada. The footage shows a concrete lock or dam structure with control buildings, a red signal light, and a large crane on a barge. The water is calm with gentle ripples under an overcast sky, and the scene has a distinct purple tint and grainy texture characteristic of Super 8 film. The camera moves steadily, offering views of the industrial infrastructure and a distant bridge, evoking a sense of mid-century industrial nostalgia.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125635216

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 1010 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: worlds fair
Reel-level year note: 1967
Reel-level location note: montreal canada
Date: 1967 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Montreal, Canada Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: 1960s 8mm footage for edits needing Montreal-area waterway infrastructure, industrial shoreline detail, or a brief archival cutaway of a lock or dam setting.
Period detail: The concrete control building, signal light, barge-mounted crane, and simple waterfront structures support a mid-century industrial setting without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from across the water, observing working infrastructure rather than staging action or focusing on people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled water, concrete lock walls, small control buildings, a red signal light, a crane on a barge, distant shoreline, and a low bridge or causeway.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows purple color shift, soft focus, visible grain, mild gate edges, and steady handheld framing that preserve the home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, infrastructure cutaway, waterfront transition, or memory beat within a Montreal or industrial-waterway sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually situates Montreal in a working waterfront context, emphasizing lock, dam, or harbor infrastructure rather than street life or public crowds.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but property, location, copyright, and any site-specific permissions should still be reviewed before reuse.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1967 Montreal 8mm waterway footage, vintage Canadian lock system, industrial canal home movie, and 1960s harbor infrastructure cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1967 Montreal waterfront footage, then broader 1960s industrial canal, bridge, or harbor material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1967 Montreal home-movie frame showing a concrete lock or dam structure, small control building, red signal light, and crane barge across the water. — Concrete lock or dam infrastructure and a crane barge seen from across the water.

1967 Montreal waterway view with a concrete lock or dam, control buildings, a red signal light, and crane equipment near the right edge. — Industrial waterfront structure with signal light and crane equipment beside the water.

1967 Montreal home-movie frame showing a low bridge or causeway, open water, distant shoreline, and a small boxlike building. — Low crossing and distant shoreline viewed over open water.

1967 Montreal waterway frame with rippled foreground water, a low bridge or causeway, and a small distant structure under a pale sky. — Distant low crossing and shoreline structure across the water.

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