Michigan USA-1961: Person Water Skiing on Lake

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

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Person Water Skiing on Lake — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Michigan, USA, in 1961 captures a person wakeboarding on a calm lake. The individual, wearing a bright red swimsuit, glides across the water while being pulled by a boat visible in the distance. The scene unfolds under overcast skies with a dense tree line forming the backdrop. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural frame jitter, offering authentic archival footage of 1960s summer recreation. The clip is framed by the dark borders of a projector, enhancing its nostalgic, personal home movie feel.

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: 121078752

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: Supports 1960s U.S. summer recreation requests needing home-movie lake sports footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The 8mm footage may show early-1960s leisure style through the red swimsuit, motorboat tow activity, soft color, and home-movie framing.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged lakeside family-film view of a person balancing on a board while being towed across calm water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wakeboarder in red, rippled lake water, white spray, a distant tow boat, wooded shoreline, overcast sky, and dark film borders.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm grain, muted color, slight jitter, soft focus, and projector-edge framing that signal original physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, summer-memory transition, lake recreation cutaway, or period leisure beat.
Historical context: The scene reflects mid-century home-movie attention to outdoor recreation and family leisure on a wooded Michigan lake, without identifying the participants.
Research note: A person is visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1961 Michigan lake sports, 8mm wakeboarding, vintage summer recreation, home movie water skiing, and 1960s lake vacation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel lake and family scenes, then Michigan 1961 outdoor footage, then broader 1960s summer water-sport home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Michigan 8mm frame showing a distant person in red being towed on a board across rippled lake water. — A board rider skims across the lake with a wooded shore behind.
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1961 Michigan lake frame with a distant red-clad rider leaning forward while being towed over choppy water. — The rider leans forward while crossing the lake surface.
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Michigan 1961 home-movie frame showing a distant board rider in red with wake spray on a calm lake. — Spray trails behind the board rider on the lake.
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1961 Michigan 8mm frame with a small distant rider in red crossing a broad white wake on lake water. — The rider crosses the boat wake near the wooded shoreline.
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