Montreal Canada-1950: Steamship with Passengers on Deck

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

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Steamship with Passengers on Deck — Clip Details

MONTREAL CANADA-1950: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a serene day on the water, featuring the Canada Steamship Lines vessel Tadoussac. The clip opens with a dark, nighttime scene of a rustic dock with vintage cars and a horse-drawn cart, transitioning to bright daylight. The main view shows the white steamship with passengers on deck, set against a backdrop of a lush, tree-covered hill under a clear blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic mid-century travel experience.

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: 127476300

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: Yes
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 travel, harbor, steamship, and home-movie waterway sequences needing an authentic visitor-shot insert.
Period detail: The clip shows a mid-century passenger vessel marked Canada Steamship Lines and Tadoussac, with vintage cars and a dock structure visible in the opening frame.
Home-movie behavior: The camera behaves like a traveler filming from shore or another vessel, lingering on the ship and briefly catching a darker dockside moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white passenger vessel, deck railings, passengers, a tree-covered hill, water, a dock, vintage cars, and a horse-drawn cart or wagon.
Film character: The 8mm image has saturated color, soft focus, heavy grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a harbor cutaway, travel-memory beat, steamship insert, or transition from dockside arrival to daylight sightseeing.
Historical context: The footage visually places leisure travel and waterfront activity within a Canadian mid-century home-movie context without documenting a specific event.
Research note: Visible vessel markings and passengers may require brand, copyright, and likeness review; editorial use still needs separate rights assessment.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s Montreal home movie steamship, Canada Steamship Lines Tadoussac, vintage harbor footage, and 8mm Canadian travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other Montreal or 1950 Canada waterway scenes, and then broader mid-century passenger-ship travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Dark 1950 Montreal dockside home-movie frame with vintage cars, a small waterside structure, and a possible horse-drawn cart or wagon. — Dark dockside scene with vintage cars and a possible horse-drawn cart before the steamship view.

White Canada Steamship Lines vessel Tadoussac on the water near Montreal, with deck railings and a forested hill behind it. — The marked Canada Steamship Lines vessel Tadoussac appears against a tree-covered hillside.

Closer 1950 Montreal view of the Tadoussac passenger vessel, showing Canada Steamship Lines lettering, upper decks, and wooded hillside. — Closer view of the Tadoussac hull and decks with the wooded shoreline in the background.

1950 Montreal home-movie frame of the Tadoussac passenger vessel with people on deck, railings, windows, and a tree-covered hill. — Passengers stand along the deck rail of the Tadoussac as the ship passes the wooded shoreline.

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