Montreal Canada-1950: Montreal Cityscape with Water and Green Trees

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

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Montreal Cityscape with Water and Green Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1950, this vintage home movie captures a panoramic view of Montreal from an elevated vantage point. The scene unfolds through a window frame, showing a sprawling cityscape with dense green trees in the foreground and a wide body of water stretching into the distance under a cloudy sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, subtle color shifts, and film grain. In the final frame, two women in period attire stand near a vintage car, adding a human element to the nostalgic urban landscape. This archival clip evokes mid-century Canadian life and is ideal for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127476158

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: 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Montreal home-movie footage for productions needing an elevated city-and-water view with a brief period travel moment.
Period detail: The final frame may show mid-century clothing, hats, and a dark rounded automobile consistent with the stated 1950 date.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, looking through a dark window or lookout framing before catching two women beside a parked car.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a distant cityscape, broad water, cloudy sky, green trees, dark vertical framing, two women, and a vintage car.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that reads as home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, travel transition, memory beat, or cutaway from urban history narration.
Historical context: The footage visually places Montreal as a mid-century city seen from an elevated green overlook, without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: People are visible in the final frame, so likeness review may be needed in addition to copyright and source-rights checks.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950 Montreal 8mm city view, Canadian home movie overlook, and vintage urban panorama with water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Montreal or 1950 Canada footage, then broader elevated city-view travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1950 Montreal cityscape and water viewed from an elevated lookout through dark window-like framing. — Elevated view over the city, water, and treetops under a cloudy sky.

Elevated 1950 Montreal view with water beyond the city, partly obscured by dark foreground framing. — The city and water remain visible beyond trees and dark lookout framing.

Hazy 1950 Montreal overlook with green trees in front and a wide water body beyond the city. — A brighter frame shows the overlook, foliage, city, and distant water.

Two women in period attire stand beside a dark car at a wooded Montreal overlook in 1950 home-movie footage. — Two women pause near a parked car at the wooded overlook.

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