Montreal Quebec-1950: Black Limousine With Whitewall Tyres Parked Beside a Rail Yard

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Year1950
Decade1950s
LocationMontreal, Quebec, Canada
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1950 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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What is in this clip

postwar automobiles
city sightseeing
luxury travel
industrial cityscape
railways
tourism
amateur filmmaking

Shot type: medium
Camera: pan · handheld · eye level, side-on
Setting: outdoor · gravel lot beside a rail yard and industrial buildings
Time and weather: daytime · summer · clear and sunny
Lighting: bright direct sunlight
People: 3 · At least three passengers seen through the car windows, one in red in the rear and one in a light jacket further forward, with a figure at the wheel.
Vehicles: black late-1940s limousine · railway freight cars
Objects: limousine · whitewall tyres · chrome grille · chrome trim · boxcar · flat freight cars · wire fence · utility poles · industrial building · small shed
Colors: black · deep blue · white · beige · green
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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Rear half of the black limousine with a boxcar and industrial building behind.
The camera pans right along the body past the passengers in the windows.
The chrome grille and front whitewall tyre come into view.
The camera swings back left to the rear doors and passenger windows.

Black Limousine With Whitewall Tyres Parked Beside a... — Clip Details

Montreal, Quebec, circa 1950 home movie footage of a black late-1940s limousine standing on a gravel lot beside a rail yard. The camera pans from the rear doors along the long body to the chrome grille and whitewall front tyre, then swings back to the passenger windows, where several people sit inside. Behind the car are a wire fence, a grass bank, freight cars on sidings and a long pale industrial building with rows of windows. It is filmed handheld on colour 8mm in bright sun, in a single side-on shot.

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: 4s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000480

Rights & Clearance

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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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1950 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Serves requests for colour footage of late-1940s luxury cars and of postwar Montreal's industrial edges, for documentary inserts and period reference.
Period detail: The limousine's rounded fenders, heavy chrome grille and wide whitewall tyres fit a body of about 1946-47, and the wooden boxcar and steel-sash factory windows suit the same era.
Home-movie behavior: A traveller films the car that appears to be carrying the party, sweeping along it and back as one might record a vehicle worth remembering from a trip.
What appears in frame: A long black limousine with whitewall tyres and chrome trim, passengers behind the glass, a wire fence and grass bank, freight cars on sidings, utility poles and a pale industrial building.
Film character: Colour 8mm with saturated blues in the black paint, flaring highlights on chrome and tyres, fine grain and a slightly unsteady handheld pan.
Edit role: Works as a short insert or cutaway introducing a car journey, or as a transition between sightseeing views of the city.
Historical context: A chauffeur-style limousine set against freight sidings and a factory shows a visitor's car in a working district of a port and rail city around 1950.
Research note: Copyright in the film is separate from likeness and property; passengers are small and soft behind glass, the car's make is unconfirmed, and the buildings are unnamed private property.
Research search match: black limousine whitewall tyres 1950, late 1940s luxury car 8mm, Montreal home movie circa 1950, rail yard freight cars colour film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's Jacques Cartier Bridge and Saint Joseph's Oratory clips, then other circa 1950 Montreal footage, then postwar automobile clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Rear doors and whitewall tyre of a black late-1940s limousine with passengers inside, beside a rail yard in Montreal, circa 1950. — The rear of the black limousine, with passengers seen through the windows and a boxcar on the sidings behind. Montreal, circa 1950.
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Long bonnet, chrome grille and whitewall front tyre of a black late-1940s limousine in Montreal, circa 1950, with freight cars behind. — The pan reaches the front of the car: long bonnet, chrome grille and whitewall tyre, with flat freight cars on the sidings behind.
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Nose of a black late-1940s limousine on a gravel lot by a fenced rail yard and grass bank, Montreal, Quebec, circa 1950. — The furthest point of the pan shows the limousine's nose against the gravel lot, the fence and the grass bank of the rail yard.
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Side view of a black late-1940s limousine carrying passengers, with a boxcar and factory behind, Montreal, circa 1950, on 8mm film. — The camera returns to the passenger compartment, where a person in red and another in a light jacket sit behind the glass.
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