Michigan USA-1961: Man Falls Into Lake While Operating Motorboat

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

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Man Falls Into Lake While Operating Motorboat — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Michigan, USA, in 1961, showing a man in a small motorboat on a calm lake. The man, wearing a light-colored shirt and dark shorts, struggles to operate the boat, leaning over the side as he attempts to set it. The boat appears to be a classic wooden or fiberglass model with a small outboard motor. As the clip progresses, the man loses his balance and falls into the water, with a red buoy visible nearby. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and a slightly faded color palette typical of 1960s home movies. The scene captures a candid moment of accidental mishap during a leisurely day on the lake, evoking a sense of nostalgic Americana and vintage adventure.

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: 121078960

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 Michigan lake-recreation requests needing candid home-movie footage of a small motorboat mishap for documentary, education, or period montage use.
Period detail: The small runabout, outboard motor, red buoy, swimwear, and faded 8mm color may show early-1960s recreational boating on an inland lake.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged family-film moment as a man tries to manage a small boat, loses balance, and ends up in the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm lake, small motorboat, man leaning over the boat, red buoy, swimmer in the water, and dark contact-sheet borders.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, mild gate weave, faded color, and contact-sheet framing give the clip a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief comic mishap insert, summer-lake cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about boating, vacations, or family recreation.
Historical context: The footage reflects casual midcentury leisure around small boats and swimming without making claims about a specific lake, event, or named person.
Research note: People and a recognizable face are visible, so copyright status should be reviewed separately from likeness and any location or property considerations.
Research search match: Searches for 1961 Michigan 8mm lake boating accident, vintage home movie man falls from boat, or 1960s family film swimmer and motorboat may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel lake footage, then with other 1961 Michigan home movies, then with broader vintage boating, swimming, and summer recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1961 Michigan home-movie footage, a man leans over a small motorboat on a calm lake near a red buoy. — A man works over the side of a small motorboat on calm lake water.

A 1961 Michigan lake scene shows a man bent over a small motorboat, with a red buoy floating to the right. — The man remains bent over the boat as the buoy drifts in the open water.

The contact sheet shows a mostly dark frame area, with a narrow strip of the 1961 Michigan lake scene visible above. — A mostly dark contact-sheet panel preserves only a partial view of the lake footage.

A man is visible in the Michigan lake water near red boat or buoy parts after falling from the small motorboat. — After the fall, the man surfaces in the water near red objects from the boat or buoy.

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