Michigan USA-1961: Waterboarder Glides Across Lake in Vintage 8mm Footage

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationMichigan, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Michigan

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Waterboarder Glides Across Lake in Vintage 8mm Footage — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Michigan USA in 1961 showing a waterboarder gliding across a lake. The grainy, yellow-tinted film captures a lone figure on a waterboard in the distance, with another person visible later in the sequence. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics including film grain, vertical scratches, and a soft focus. The scene unfolds on a calm lake with tree-lined shores under overcast skies, evoking a nostalgic summer memory. The camera remains stationary, capturing the motion of the waterboarder across the water's surface.

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: 121077959

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 2015 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: xmas,linda communion,,d danielar
Reel-level year note: 1961-1962
Reel-level location note: detroit michigan,
Date: 1961 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: Michigan, United States 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing 1960s Michigan home-movie lake recreation footage for documentary, museum, education, or memory-sequence inserts.
Period detail: The clip may show early 1960s leisure filming through its 8mm format, soft color, distant water activity, and stationary home-movie framing.
Home-movie behavior: The footage preserves an unstaged observer's view of a distant person gliding over a lake, with another small figure appearing later in the sequence.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm lake, distant waterboarder, tree-lined shore, hazy hills, overcast sky, film gate edges, scratches, and warm yellow exposure shifts.
Film character: The 8mm scan has pronounced grain, soft focus, vertical scratches, vignetting, uneven exposure, and color fading that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief summer recreation insert, lake cutaway, transition beat, or reflective memory fragment within a 1960s sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects casual lakeside recreation as captured by a family or amateur camera, without enough detail to identify participants or a specific lake.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so copyright, likeness, and location context should be reviewed separately before publication or commercial use.
Research search match: Search matches include 1961 Michigan 8mm lake footage, vintage waterboarding home movie, 1960s summer recreation, and distant water sport on lake.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Michigan 1961 lake scenes, then broader 1960s water-sport or summer recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Michigan 8mm frame showing a distant waterboarder on a lake, with warm fading, scratches, and dark film borders. — A lone distant figure glides across the lake near the shore.

Distant waterboarder crossing a Michigan lake in 1961 home-movie footage, partly obscured by grain, scratches, and soft focus. — The small waterboarder continues across the pale lake surface.

1961 Michigan lake frame with two distant figures on or near the water, seen through faded 8mm color and heavy vertical scratches. — Two distant figures are visible near the shoreline on the lake.

Soft 8mm frame from 1961 Michigan showing a distant figure on lake water, low hills beyond, and visible film wear. — A distant figure moves across open water with hills in the background.

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