Montreal Canada-1950: Crops and Flowers Overlooking Water

$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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Crops and Flowers Overlooking Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1950, this vintage home movie captures a scenic view of blue ocean water and a rural irrigation system. The footage shows a wooden fence in the foreground, with rows of crops and bright orange flowers under a clear sky. The camera pans across a lush green landscape to reveal a calm body of water and a tree-covered hillside in the distance. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and natural lighting evoke a nostalgic, mid-century American countryside atmosphere.

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: 127476607

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: 1950s 8mm home-movie footage suited for documentary cutaways of rural waterfront scenery, garden borders, and a quiet visitor view near Montreal, Canada.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century rural leisure scenery, with a simple wooden rail fence, flower planting, open water, and wooded hills visible in the home-movie frames.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the landscape from an informal roadside or garden vantage, panning across water and hillside without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wooden fence, orange flowers, low shrubs, calm blue water, a distant tree-covered hillside, pale sky, and a utility pole in one view.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, faded color, edge shadows, and handheld framing that give the landscape a tactile home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief scenic insert, establishing cutaway, travel-memory transition, or quiet visual pause between stronger narrative beats.
Historical context: The footage documents a private amateur view of cultivated foreground greenery and waterfront terrain, offering visual context for mid-century outdoor travel or rural observation.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should still be reviewed before reuse.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1950s 8mm Canada waterfront, Montreal home movie landscape, vintage garden fence by water, and rural hillside lake cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent scenes from the same reel, then with Montreal or Canada footage from 1950, then with broader 1950s waterfront, garden, and rural landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1950s 8mm view near Montreal showing a wooden fence, orange flowers, shrubs, and a distant glimpse of water. — Fence, garden planting, and waterfront landscape from a home-movie vantage.

1950s 8mm landscape near Montreal with calm blue water, a wooded hillside, foreground shrubs, and a rail fence. — Water, hillside, and foreground garden edge in a brief scenic pan.

1950s 8mm view near Montreal looking across blue water toward a tree-covered hillside, with shrubs and fence rails below. — Broad waterfront view with hillside and foreground fence rails.

1950s 8mm Montreal-area waterfront view with a green hillside, calm water, foreground shrubs, fence rails, and a utility pole. — Hillside across calm water with garden foreground and utility pole.

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