St Paul Minnesota USA-1962: Water Skiing and Swimming in Lake

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

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Water Skiing and Swimming in Lake — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from St. Paul, Minnesota, 1962, capturing a person water skiing on a lake. The grainy, color-bleached film shows a skier in a swimsuit gliding across the water, pulling a rope, with trees lining the shore. Later frames show a person swimming in the lake, their head above the rippling water. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural motion blur, and authentic 1960s color palette. This nostalgic archival clip offers authentic summer recreation from the early 1960s, perfect for historical documentaries, retro-themed content, or vintage Americana projects.

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: 120813516

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This clip supports archival requests for early-1960s American lake recreation, especially documentary or educational sequences needing brief home-movie views of water skiing and swimming.
Period detail: The 1962 metadata and soft color 8mm appearance place the footage in an early-1960s home-movie context, while the visible shoreline, swimsuits, tow rope, and open water show casual summer recreation rather than a formal event.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes unstaged leisure activity from a distance, moving between a water skier near the wooded shore and a swimmer close to the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippling lake water, a water skier holding a tow rope, wooded shoreline, indistinct lakeside structures or posts, a swimmer's head and shoulders, sunlit splashes, and heavy film grain.
Film character: The clip has a soft 8mm home-movie texture with pronounced grain, motion blur, uneven exposure, and color shifts that reinforce its original physical-film source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, recreation insert, summer transition, or cutaway within a sequence about lakeside leisure or midcentury family activity.
Historical context: The footage shows ordinary lake-based recreation in the United States during the early 1960s, with water skiing and swimming presented as casual personal footage rather than organized sport coverage.
Research note: People are visible and at least one face is partially discernible in the swimming frames, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright or location clearance.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1960s 8mm lake swimming, vintage Minnesota water skiing, early 1960s American summer recreation, and home movie water sports footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with St. Paul or Minnesota footage from 1962, and then with broader 1960s lake, swimming, boating, or summer recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 home-movie frame from the United States showing a distant water skier on a lake near trees and indistinct shoreline structures. — Water skier near the wooded shore.
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1962 8mm frame showing a water skier in a swimsuit cutting across the lake with trees and a shoreline behind them. — Skier crossing the water.
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Soft 8mm frame from the 1962 lake scene showing a swimmer close to the camera with head and arm above rippling water. — Swimmer in the lake.
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1962 home-movie frame showing a swimmer's head and shoulders in the lake, with the face partially visible amid grain and shadow. — Swimmer facing the camera.
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