Michigan USA-1961: Man Water Skis At A Lake Near The Shore With Trees In The Background

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

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Man Water Skis At A Lake Near The Shore With Trees In... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1961 showing a man water skiing on a lake in Michigan. The skier, wearing a red shirt and light-colored shorts, glides across the water near a sandy shore lined with dense evergreen trees. The scene captures the motion and balance of water skiing with visible spray, filmed through a dark window frame that adds to the nostalgic, candid feel. The film exhibits natural grain, slight blurriness, and warm color tones typical of 8mm home movies from the early 1960s. The overall mood is one of leisure and outdoor recreation during a sunny day.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121078815

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s U.S. home-movie requests needing brief lake recreation, water-skiing, or summer leisure material for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus, contact-sheet framing, and casual lakeside recreation support an early-1960s home-movie reading, with Michigan and 1961 supplied by metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The skier appears filmed from a candid distance as he passes near shore, preserving the unstaged balance, speed, and spray of a family or vacation lake outing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a water skier in a red top, lake surface, wake spray, sandy shoreline, evergreen trees, and dark film or window-frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm archival texture through visible grain, mild blur, warm color, uneven exposure, and dark frame bars from the original filmed or scanned material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, transition, memory beat, or recreational cutaway within sequences about summer, lake vacations, outdoor sports, or midcentury leisure.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational water activity on a wooded Michigan lake, showing everyday outdoor leisure without enough detail to identify the people, property, or exact shoreline.
Research note: A person is visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed, while no logos, minors, audible music, or clearly identifiable private property are evident in the frames.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1961 Michigan 8mm water skiing, 1960s lake recreation home movie, vintage man water skis near shore, or summer boating footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other 1961 Michigan lake footage, then broader 1960s outdoor recreation or water-sport home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Michigan 8mm frame showing a distant water skier near a sandy, tree-lined shore, seen through dark frame borders. — A water skier moves near the wooded shoreline, leaving a low trail of spray across the lake.

Distant water skier in red moves along the Michigan lakeshore in soft 8mm home-movie footage from 1961. — The skier glides past the far shore, with trees behind him and spray trailing to one side.

1961 Michigan home-movie frame with a distant water skier near a wooded shoreline and visible water spray. — The skier remains close to the far bank, framed by dark film borders and a wooded lakeside background.

Soft 8mm frame from 1961 Michigan showing a distant skier near the right edge of a tree-lined lake shore. — The skier nears the edge of the frame as the lake foreground and dark frame bars dominate the view.

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