St Paul Minnesota USA-1962: Woman Water Skiing Behind Motorboat

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationUnited States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 · United States
StatusDirect License

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Woman Water Skiing Behind Motorboat — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1962 in St. Paul, Minnesota, showing a woman in a bikini water skiing behind a motorboat on a lake. The grainy, low-light footage captures her balancing on the ski as she glides across the water, with the boat pulling her through gentle waves. The scene evokes a nostalgic summer recreation, filmed with classic Super 8 film aesthetics, including visible grain and soft focus. The distant shoreline and calm water suggest a peaceful lakeside setting, typical of mid-century American leisure activities.

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: 120813432

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$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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1960s 8mm home-movie clip can support documentary or educational requests for mid-century American lake recreation, water skiing, and summer leisure footage.
Period detail: The bikini-style swimwear, small motorboat activity, and soft 8mm color rendering may show early-1960s recreational lake culture, with the 1962 date supported by supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal, handheld observation of a woman balancing on water skis while a boat pulls ahead, preserving a brief unstaged family-film view of outdoor recreation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman water skiing, a tow rope, a motorboat, lake water, small waves, distant shoreline, and low hills or tree-lined land across the water.
Film character: The clip has a low-light 8mm home-movie character with pronounced grain, soft focus, muted blue-purple color, and slight handheld framing that give it archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, recreational cutaway, summer-memory beat, or transition into material about lakeside leisure and amateur family filming.
Historical context: The footage reflects a casual leisure activity on open water, showing how a home-movie camera recorded sport and vacation moments rather than staged public events.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed, while no logos, audible music, or clear private property are visible in the supplied frames; copyright and source permissions should still be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s 8mm water skiing, woman water skiing home movie, Minnesota lake recreation, vintage boat tow footage, and mid-century summer sports film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1962 St. Paul or Minnesota lake material, and then broader 1960s boating, swimming, and summer recreation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1962 home-movie footage identified as St. Paul, Minnesota, a woman appears to water ski behind a motorboat on a lake, with the tow rope stretching across the water. — Water skier trails behind the boat.
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The woman continues water skiing across the lake in the supplied 1962 Minnesota home-movie scene, with rippled water and shoreline visible in the distance. — Skier glides across rippled water.
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A small motorboat pulls the woman on water skis through gentle wake, seen in grainy 8mm footage identified by metadata as St. Paul, Minnesota in 1962. — Boat pulls the skier through wake.
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The motorboat and water skier are seen farther apart across the lake, with dark open water and a distant shoreline in this short 1962 8mm home-movie view. — Boat and skier spread across the lake.
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