Montreal Canada-1950: A Fence Surrounds A Cemetery With Men Standing

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Year1950
Decade1950s
LocationMontreal, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1951 Canada

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A Fence Surrounds A Cemetery With Men Standing — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from Montreal, Canada, in 1950 captures a quiet moment at a rural cemetery. Three men in period attire—suits and a white cap—stand in the foreground, conversing near a white picket fence that encloses the graveyard. The scene includes weathered tombstones, lush green grass, and a small white building with a dark roof, all set against a backdrop of dense evergreen trees. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and a handheld camera perspective, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127475882

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 1216 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: st. lawrense river,tadoussac
Reel-level year note: 1950
Reel-level location note: montreal canada
Date: 1950 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: Useful for 1950s Canada editorial sequences needing rural cemetery, family travel, or reflective community cutaways from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The men's suits, white cap, picket fencing, simple grave markers, and small white buildings may show mid-century rural cemetery surroundings near Montreal.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged visitor perspective, lingering on men talking beside a fenced graveyard and then on the cemetery landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include suited men, a white picket fence, grave markers, small white buildings, green grass, evergreen trees, and distant wooded hills.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, uneven exposure, and handheld framing typical of home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a reflective insert, cemetery establishing shot, family-history transition, or quiet memory beat.
Historical context: The scene places visitors and graveyard architecture within a rural-looking Canadian landscape without establishing a specific cemetery or event.
Research note: Faces are visible and cemetery context is sensitive, so likeness, privacy, and religious or funerary context should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Searches such as 1950s Montreal cemetery home movie, rural graveyard picket fence, Canadian 8mm cemetery visitors, and mid-century grave markers may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Montreal or 1950 Canada material, then broader cemetery, memorial, or rural community footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1950 Montreal-area home-movie footage, men in suits stand near a fenced rural cemetery with a small white building and trees behind them. — Men converse near the white picket fence of a rural cemetery.

The camera looks across a white picket fence toward grave markers, grass, trees, and a small white building in the Montreal-area cemetery scene. — White fencing encloses grave markers beside a small building and trees.

The 8mm view holds on the fenced cemetery landscape, showing pale grave markers, grass, trees, and a small building at the edge of frame. — The cemetery fence runs across a grassy slope with grave markers beyond it.

The final frame shows the Montreal-area cemetery from farther back, with white fencing, headstones, trees, and distant rural buildings. — A wider cemetery view shows headstones inside the white fence and wooded hills beyond.

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