Montreal Canada-1950: The View Of A Lot Of Houses Built Close To The Beach

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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The View Of A Lot Of Houses Built Close To The Beach — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1950, this vintage home movie captures a panoramic view of a quiet coastal town in Montreal, Canada. The camera pans slowly across a sandy beachfront dotted with modest wooden houses and cabins, their weathered facades nestled among green grass and scattered trees. In the distance, a larger white building with a prominent tower stands out against the tree-lined hills. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and faded colors. This authentic archival clip offers a rare glimpse into postwar suburban life by the water.

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: 127476476

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 waterfront settlement, beach approach, or suburban shoreline establishing view.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century waterfront cabins, simple roads, open sandy ground, and a distant towered building consistent with the supplied 1950 Montreal metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in an unstaged visitor viewpoint, with a soft handheld pan observing houses, beach, trees, and hillside from a distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include sandy shoreline, modest buildings, grass slopes, scattered trees, distant hills, a pale towered structure, and a small vehicle-like shape.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, faded color, visible grain, slight gate edge, and contact-sheet framing that gives it physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, shoreline transition, memory beat, or visual bridge into postwar Canadian domestic landscapes.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for waterfront residential space and open land near Montreal without proving ownership, exact neighborhood, or social conditions.
Research note: No people, children, or logos are evident, but copyright, location identification, and visible building/property context should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950 8mm Montreal waterfront homes, Canadian beach houses, vintage shoreline town view, and mid-century home movie landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Montreal or 1950 Canadian waterfront material, then broader themes of beachside housing and postwar home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1950 Montreal home-movie frame showing sandy foreground, low waterfront buildings, trees, hills, and a distant pale towered structure. — Distant waterfront houses and a towered building beyond the sandy beach.

1950 Montreal waterfront view with sandy ground, small roadside buildings, scattered trees, distant hills, and a pale towered building. — Small waterfront structures and distant hills during the pan.

1950 Montreal frame showing a panned shoreline with a small building, grass, trees, hills, and the edge of the beach and water. — The pan moves along the beach toward a grassy slope and shoreline.

1950 Montreal home-movie frame with sandy shoreline, water, green hillside, scattered buildings, and trees in soft focus. — Sandy shoreline, water, and hillside buildings at the end of the pan.

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