Montreal Canada-1950: Passenger Ship Approaching Harbor

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

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Passenger Ship Approaching Harbor — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1950, this vintage home movie captures a large passenger ship approaching a harbor in Montreal, Canada. Viewed through a window frame, the vessel glides across the water under a cloudy sky, with a shoreline of bushes and a sandy beach in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and faded color tones, evoking a nostalgic mid-century travel memory. The ship's twin smokestacks are visible as it moves toward the dock, offering a glimpse of mid-20th century maritime transportation.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127475954

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 editorial or documentary requests needing home-movie views of passenger shipping, waterfront travel, or harbor approach scenes in Montreal, Canada.
Period detail: The twin-smokestack passenger vessel, muted color, and 8mm home-movie framing may show mid-century maritime travel viewed from a shoreline or windowed vantage point.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, observing the ship from behind dark window or frame edges rather than from a staged or official harbor viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large passenger ship, twin funnels, a pier or dock structure, open water, cloudy sky, foreground shrubs, shoreline sand, and dark window framing.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, visible grain, slight blur, faded color, and uneven exposure that preserve the texture of a physical home-movie scan.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief harbor insert, travel transition, maritime cutaway, or reflective memory beat in a sequence about mid-century Canadian travel.
Historical context: The view documents a passenger vessel near shore in archival home-movie form, suggesting everyday travel observation without proving the ship identity or exact harbor facility.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but ship identity, copyright status, and any location or property permissions should still be checked for intended use.
Research search match: Researcher matches include 1950s 8mm Montreal harbor footage, passenger ship approaching dock, Canadian waterfront home movie, and vintage maritime travel scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1950 Montreal or Canadian waterfront footage, then broader passenger ship and harbor travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1950 home-movie view in Montreal, Canada, showing a large passenger ship offshore through dark vertical framing, with shrubs and shoreline in front. — Passenger ship seen across the water from a framed shoreline viewpoint.

1950 Montreal harbor footage showing a twin-funnel passenger ship near a dark dock structure, seen through a window-like frame. — Twin-funnel passenger vessel approaches or passes near the harbor structure.

A soft 8mm frame from 1950 Montreal shows a passenger ship near a pier, with water, pale sky, shoreline brush, and dark window framing. — Harbor view with the passenger vessel aligned near a pier or dock.

1950 Montreal home-movie still showing the passenger ship near shore through dark framing, with rippled water, cloudy sky, and shrubs below. — Soft 8mm view of the ship near shore at the end of the clip.

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