Montreal Canada-1950: Panoramic Hotel View With Grassy Lawn And White Chairs

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

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Panoramic Hotel View With Grassy Lawn And White Chairs — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1950, this vintage home movie captures a panoramic view of a grand white hotel in Montreal, Canada. The camera pans across the building's expansive porch, showcasing rows of white Adirondack chairs and striped umbrellas set on a lush green lawn. The hotel features classic architecture with green shutters, dormer windows, and a covered veranda. The footage exhibits natural film grain and soft color saturation typical of mid-century home movies, evoking a nostalgic, leisurely atmosphere of a bygone era.

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: 127476415

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: Useful for 1950s archival sequences needing a quiet Canadian hotel exterior, resort lawn, or travel-establishing cutaway.
Period detail: The visible cues may show mid-century leisure travel: green shutters, dormer windows, a deep veranda, lawn chairs, and striped umbrellas.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, panning across the hotel frontage as a traveler records the setting rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white multi-story hotel, green shutters, dormer windows, a covered porch, white lawn chairs, umbrellas, grass, and flower beds.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, gentle color fade, visible grain, and slight handheld drift consistent with home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, travel transition, resort cutaway, or reflective memory beat between people-centered scenes.
Historical context: The scene documents hotel-lawn leisure space in Montreal as presented through a 1950 home-movie camera, without visible guests in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or signage are visible, but copyright, location identification, and property-use questions should still be reviewed by production counsel.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950 Montreal hotel exterior, vintage 8mm resort lawn, Canadian travel home movie, veranda chairs, and mid-century hotel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Montreal or 1950 Canadian travel scenes, then broader hotel, lawn, and leisure exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1950 Montreal home-movie frame showing a white hotel exterior with green shutters, veranda seating, lawn, and umbrellas. — The camera begins on the hotel lawn, with porch seating and umbrellas in front of the white facade.

1950 Montreal home-movie view of the hotel veranda, arched porch supports, green shutters, white chairs, and open lawn. — The pan centers on the long porch and rows of pale lawn chairs along the hotel front.

1950 Montreal home-movie frame showing a closer section of the hotel facade with veranda arches, shutters, lawn, and flowers. — A closer part of the hotel front shows the porch structure, shuttered windows, and manicured grounds.

1950 Montreal home-movie view of the hotel entrance side, with green awnings, porch arches, shutters, lawn, and planted flowers. — The pan reaches an entrance-side section with awnings, flowers, and the continuing veranda.

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