Montreal Canada-1950: Beautiful View Of Many People Walking In Front Of Houses

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

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Beautiful View Of Many People Walking In Front Of Houses — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1950, this vintage home movie captures a scenic view of a residential area in Montreal, Canada. The clip opens with a wide, slightly hazy shot of houses nestled among trees on a hillside overlooking a body of water. The scene transitions to a well-manicured garden with colorful flowers in the foreground, a wooden fence, and a large white building with arched windows and a red roof in the background. Several people are seen walking on the lawn, dressed in period-appropriate clothing. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and natural camera movement, evoking a strong sense of mid-century nostalgia and everyday life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127476485

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 Montreal home-movie requests needing a scenic residential or garden cutaway with distant people in period outdoor settings.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century dress and landscaping, with hillside houses, a formal garden, and an arched white building visible in the background.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the visitor-shot perspective, observing people moving across a lawn and garden area without staged action or direct camera awareness.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wooded hills, distant houses, water or open ground, flower beds, a fence, lawn, an arched white building, and small walking figures.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, mild color fading, visible grain, gate edges, and a slightly unsteady home-movie frame that reads as physical archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, garden transition, travel-memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway within a mid-century Canadian sequence.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for outdoor leisure or sightseeing around Montreal, emphasizing gardens, residential hillside views, and public-looking grounds.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed, while copyright, location, and property considerations should be checked separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s Montreal 8mm home movie, Canadian garden footage, hillside houses, people walking on lawn, and vintage travel view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1950 Montreal material, then with mid-century garden, residential view, or travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1950 Montreal home-movie frame showing wooded hills, distant houses, and a pale open foreground through dark film-gate edges. — Distant hillside houses and trees appear beyond an open foreground.

Soft 1950 Montreal view of wooded hillside, scattered houses, and a pale open area, with visible 8mm frame borders. — A hazy hillside residential view fills the upper portion of the frame.

1950 Montreal garden scene with flowers, a low fence, green lawn, and a white arched building as small figures walk nearby. — Flower beds and a fence lead toward a lawn and arched white building.

1950 Montreal home-movie frame showing garden flowers, fence, lawn, arched white building, and distant people gathered or walking at right. — People appear at the edge of a manicured lawn near the arched building.

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