Montreal Canada-1950: Passenger Ferry Approaching Montreal Pier

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

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Passenger Ferry Approaching Montreal Pier — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1950, this vintage home movie captures a large passenger ferry approaching a pier along the coast near Montreal, Canada. The clip, viewed through a window frame, shows the ship moving across the water under a bright sky, with sunlight glinting off the waves. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, film grain, and a slightly faded color palette. The scene evokes mid-century travel and maritime transportation, offering authentic archival footage for historical or nostalgic 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: 127476361

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s 8mm home-movie footage suited for documentary or education requests around Canadian maritime travel, ferry approaches, and mid-century waterfront views.
Period detail: The large passenger vessel, pier, bright waterfront, and faded color 8mm look may show mid-century leisure or transport activity near Montreal, as supplied by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The view is filmed from behind a window or frame, giving the scene the unstaged feel of a traveler or visitor watching a ship approach shore.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a passenger ferry, open water, sun glare, a pier or breakwater, tree-lined shoreline, window mullions, hazy sky, and film dust.
Film character: Soft focus, light exposure bloom, gate edges, dust specks, and slight color fading give the 8mm scan a physically sourced home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime cutaway, travel insert, waterfront transition, or reflective memory beat in a mid-century Canada sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually situates passenger water travel within a quiet coastal or riverside setting, without identifying the vessel, pier, or exact route from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any location or vessel identification should be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search phrasing includes 1950s 8mm passenger ferry Canada, Montreal waterfront home movie, vintage cruise boat approaching pier, and mid-century maritime travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1950 Montreal or Canadian waterfront clips, and then with ferry, cruise, pier, and travel-themed archive footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1950 8mm view near Montreal, with a passenger ferry crossing sunlit water behind a dark window frame. — A large passenger vessel moves across bright water beyond the window frame.

1950 8mm frame near Montreal showing a passenger ferry beside a pier or breakwater under a pale sky. — The ferry appears closer to a dark pier or breakwater along the waterfront.

1950 8mm waterfront view near Montreal, with a pier, shoreline trees, and part of a vessel partly obscured by framing. — The view shifts toward the shoreline, with the vessel partly hidden by the window frame.

1950 8mm frame near Montreal showing bright water, a dark pier, shoreline trees, and part of a passenger vessel at frame edge. — The final frame holds on the pier and shoreline as the vessel slips partly out of view.

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