Montreal Canada-1950: Lake with Hillside Town

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

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Lake with Hillside Town — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1950, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside view of Montreal, Canada. The clip shows a calm blue lake in the foreground with a small town nestled among green hills in the background. A large white building, possibly a hotel or resort, stands prominently on the shore. The footage has a characteristic 1950s color palette with faded blues and greens, typical of Super 8 film. The camera appears to be moving slowly, offering a panoramic view of the landscape under a clear sky. This archival footage evokes a sense of nostalgia and quiet vintage.

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: 127476277

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: Useful for 1950s Canadian home-movie requests needing a quiet lakeside establishing view or scenic travel cutaway near Montreal.
Period detail: The color 8mm look, distant shoreline buildings, small boats, wooded hills and resort-like waterfront setting may show mid-century leisure travel scenery.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, scanning slowly across water and shoreline without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue lake water, small boats, a white shoreline building, clustered houses, wooded green hills and bright sky.
Film character: Soft focus, saturated blue water, slight exposure variation, rounded frame edges and handheld framing give the scan a tactile 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, travel transition, reflective memory beat or calm cutaway between Montreal-area 1950s sequences.
Historical context: The footage places a small waterfront settlement against wooded hills, suggesting recreational or scenic observation rather than an urban street scene.
Research note: No people, faces, logos or audible music are evident, but location identity, building status and copyright clearance should still be verified by production.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s 8mm Canadian lake view, Montreal-area home movie shoreline, vintage blue water hills and small-town waterfront footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Montreal or 1950 Canada clips, then broader lakeside, travel, hills and scenic water footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1950 Montreal-area 8mm frame showing blue lake water, a distant white shoreline building and wooded hills. — Distant waterfront buildings sit below green hills across a blue lake.

1950 Montreal-area home-movie frame with small boats on blue water and shoreline buildings beneath wooded hills. — Small boats cross the lake in front of a distant hillside settlement.

1950 Montreal-area 8mm view of lake water, a distant waterfront town and green hills in soft home-movie color. — The camera continues across the lakeside town and wooded hillside.

1950 Montreal-area lakeside frame showing bright water, small boats near shore and a dark wooded hill in the background. — Small boats sit near the far shore beneath a shaded wooded hill.

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