St Paul Minnesota USA-1962: Man Pulled By A Boat While Water Skiing On The Lake

$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.

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Man Pulled By A Boat While Water Skiing On The Lake — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from St. Paul, Minnesota, 1962, showing a man water skiing on a lake. A motorboat pulls the skier across the water, creating white wakes. The skier, wearing dark swim trunks, maintains balance while being towed. The scene is captured in grainy, low-light conditions with a distinct purple tint, characteristic of 1960s home movie film. The camera remains relatively steady, focusing on the action as the skier moves from left to right across the frame, eventually becoming a small figure in the distance. The footage captures a classic moment of mid-century recreational fun.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120813415

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1962 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: United States 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

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: 1960s 8mm home-movie footage suited to archive requests for mid-century lake recreation, boating, and water-skiing inserts in documentary or educational productions.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1960s leisure activity through its small motorboat, simple water-ski setup, dark swimwear, and soft color-shifted 8mm home-movie rendering.
Home-movie behavior: The footage preserves an unstaged spectator view as a skier is pulled across open water and gradually recedes from the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a motorboat, a towed water skier, bright boat wake, rippled lake surface, dark shoreline or horizon band, and grainy film frame edges.
Film character: The scan has pronounced 8mm grain, low-light exposure, purple color cast, soft focus, and slight frame instability that give it clear physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short recreational insert, summer-memory cutaway, lake-life transition, or visual beat for mid-century family leisure.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational boating and water skiing as a casual home-movie subject, without enough visible detail to identify the lake, people, or boat model.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed, while no visible logos, private property, or branded markings are apparent in these frames.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s 8mm water skiing, Minnesota lake recreation, home movie motorboat pulling skier, vintage summer boating, and St. Paul area lake footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other St. Paul or Minnesota 1962 lake footage, then with broader 1960s boating and water-sport home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1962 home-movie footage from the St. Paul, Minnesota area, a small motorboat pulls a distant water skier across a dark, grainy lake surface. — Boat towing a skier across the lake.

A distant water skier follows a motorboat across open water in grainy 1962 8mm footage associated with St. Paul, Minnesota. — Skier being towed behind the boat.

The skier appears as a small blurred figure on the lake, with the tow action moving farther from the camera in purple-tinted 8mm footage. — Distant skier crossing the water.

A small, distant skier remains visible against the dark lake surface as the home-movie shot softens and the action recedes. — Skier receding into the distance.

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