Montreal Canada-1950: Cemetery with White Fence and Gravestones

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1950
Decade1950s
LocationMontreal, Canada
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1951 Canada

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Cemetery with White Fence and Gravestones — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1950, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of a rural cemetery in Montreal, Canada. A white picket fence encloses the grassy grounds, where numerous gravestones and a prominent cross stand among mature trees. In the background, a small church and other buildings nestle against a forested hillside under a clear sky. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows slight camera movement and the characteristic grain and color saturation of mid-century home movies, evoking a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127475887

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 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 Canadian home-movie requests needing a quiet rural cemetery cutaway, small-town landscape insert, or reflective documentary transition.
Period detail: The 8mm color view may show mid-century rural cemetery grounds with a white picket fence, upright headstones, a cross, modest buildings, and a wooded hillside near Montreal.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective from behind dark window or frame edges, holding on the cemetery without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white fence, grassy cemetery slope, upright grave markers, a dark cross, evergreen and deciduous trees, small buildings, and a distant wooded hill.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, saturated greens and whites, mild exposure variation, gate edges, grain, and slight handheld drift.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a cemetery establishing insert, contemplative memory beat, rural Canada cutaway, or transition between family-history and place-based material.
Historical context: The view documents a quiet cemetery landscape and surrounding settlement features, but the frames do not identify a specific burial ground, congregation, or event.
Research note: No people, faces, brands, or audible music are indicated, but cemetery and religious imagery should be reviewed separately from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s 8mm Montreal cemetery footage, rural Canadian graveyard home movie, white picket fence cemetery, and archival churchyard landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Montreal or 1950 Canada material, then broader cemetery, churchyard, rural fence, or reflective landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1950 Montreal-area 8mm view of a white fenced cemetery with grave markers, trees, small buildings, and a distant wooded hill. — A white fence borders a grassy cemetery with headstones and trees in the background.

1950 Montreal-area home-movie frame showing a fenced cemetery with upright stones, trees, nearby buildings, and a wooded hillside. — The cemetery remains framed by a white fence, with buildings and trees beyond the graves.

1950 Montreal-area 8mm frame looking across a white cemetery fence toward headstones, a cross, trees, buildings, and a green hillside. — A closer angle shows upright grave markers behind the white fence and trees around the grounds.

1950 Montreal-area home-movie view of a white fenced cemetery with headstones, a cross, trees, a utility pole, buildings, and wooded hillside. — The final frame includes the cemetery fence, grave markers, trees, and a utility pole near nearby buildings.

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