Montreal Canada-1950: Huge Resort Sitting On The Side Of A Big Lake In The

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

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Huge Resort Sitting On The Side Of A Big Lake In The — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1950, this vintage home movie captures a grand resort hotel nestled along the shore of a calm lake, with rolling mountains in the background. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows the white building with a prominent tower and surrounding structures under a clear sky. The scene evokes a sense of mid-century leisure and travel, with the lake's surface reflecting the soft light of the day. The film exhibits natural grain and color shifts typical of Super 8 footage from the era, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical projects.

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: 127476265

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s 8mm travel footage for productions needing a lakeside resort, vacation, or mid-century Canadian leisure establishing shot.
Period detail: The distant white resort building, lakeshore setting, and color 8mm home-movie texture may show postwar vacation travel aesthetics.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint from behind a dark window or railing, giving the resort a candid home-movie observation rather than a staged view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm lake, distant white resort hotel, tower-like roofline, shoreline structures, wooded hills, open sky, and dark window bars.
Film character: The footage shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, high contrast, and minor gate framing typical of scanned mid-century 8mm film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, vacation memory beat, or lakeside resort cutaway.
Historical context: The scene reflects leisure travel viewed from across water, with a large resort complex set against hills but no visible guests or activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any property or location identification should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s 8mm Canadian resort footage, lakeside hotel home movie, vintage vacation lake view, and Montreal travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1950 Montreal or Canadian travel scenes, then broader lakeside resort and vacation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1950 8mm view near Montreal of a large lakeside resort seen across water, with wooded hills behind and dark framing in the foreground. — A large white resort sits across the lake beneath wooded hills.

A distant resort complex along a calm lake near Montreal, with a prominent white building, shoreline structures, and hills in the background. — The resort complex remains centered across the water, partly obscured by dark foreground framing.

The 1950 home-movie frame shows the resort shifted left across the lake, with a bright shoreline structure and rolling hills behind. — The view pans slightly along the shoreline, keeping the resort and lake in view.

A distant Montreal-area resort across blue lake water, framed by dark vertical bars with hills and scattered buildings behind. — The final frame holds on the lakeside resort and surrounding hillside landscape.

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