Montreal Canada-1950: Ocean Liner at Montreal Port with Crowds and Cars

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

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Ocean Liner at Montreal Port with Crowds and Cars — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1950, this vintage home movie captures a bustling port scene in Montreal, Canada. A large ocean liner with a distinctive black, white, and red smokestack dominates the dock, surrounded by a crowd of people and classic automobiles. The footage transitions to show the ship sailing away from the harbor, its silhouette gliding across the water under a bright sky. The grainy, color-bleached quality and film edge borders evoke a strong sense of mid-century nostalgia and historical travel.

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: 127476341

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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: Useful for 1950s editorial sequences needing real 8mm home-movie views of a Canadian port, ocean liner activity, and spectators at a waterfront departure.
Period detail: The cars, dockside crowd, liner profile, and black-white-red funnel support a mid-century travel setting, consistent with the supplied 1950 Montreal metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, watching from the dock and then across the water as the ship moves away rather than staging the action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large passenger ship, dockside spectators, parked automobiles, bright harbor water, a distant vessel, pier structures, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight blur, high glare on the water, and contact-print edge borders that give the scene physical archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short travel insert, port departure cutaway, maritime transition, or memory beat within a mid-century Canada or ocean travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents public attention around a passenger ship at a busy harbor, with automobiles and crowds giving scale to postwar-era waterfront travel.
Research note: People and faces may be visible in the dockside crowd, so likeness review is advised; copyright, vessel identity, and any location claims should be checked separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950s Montreal harbor 8mm, vintage ocean liner departure, Canadian port home movie, dockside crowd watching ship, and mid-century travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1950 Montreal waterfront material, then broader ocean liner, harbor, and mid-century travel clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1950 Montreal harbor view showing spectators and parked cars near a large passenger ship with a striped funnel. — Crowd and automobiles gather beside a docked passenger ship.

A passenger ship appears offshore in the bright Montreal harbor, with a dark pier or shoreline form at the right edge. — Passenger ship seen across shimmering harbor water.

The liner is framed farther across the harbor, its two funnels visible against pale water and sky in the 8mm home-movie frame. — Liner seen from shore as it moves through the harbor.

The ship remains offshore in the supplied 1950 Montreal footage, silhouetted softly against glare on the harbor water. — Distant passenger ship continues across the sunlit harbor.

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