Michigan USA-1961: A Man Enjoying Water Skiing On A Lake

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

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A Man Enjoying Water Skiing On A Lake — Clip Details

A man water skiing on a lake in Michigan, USA, in 1961. Shot on vintage 8mm film, the clip shows a shirtless man in red swim trunks holding a yellow tow rope, gliding across the water on a single ski. The footage captures splashing waves and a distant shoreline with trees and houses. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and soft focus reflect authentic 1960s home movie quality, evoking a nostalgic, summertime vacation atmosphere.

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: 121079510

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 early 1960s Michigan lake recreation footage for documentary, education, or period summer-life sequences.
Period detail: The swim trunks, single water ski, tow rope, motorboat wake, and soft 8mm color may show a 1961 vacation or leisure outing on a Michigan lake.
Home-movie behavior: The footage preserves an unstaged home-movie view of a shirtless man balancing and leaning into a water-ski run across open lake water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the water skier, red swim trunks, yellow tow rope, single ski, lake spray, distant shoreline, trees, and lakeside houses.
Film character: The clip has grainy 8mm texture, soft focus, slight fade, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing that support its home-movie archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, summer recreation cutaway, transition beat, or memory detail within a 1960s vacation sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects midcentury recreational boating and water-ski leisure as seen through a family or amateur camera, without identifying the lake or participants.
Research note: A visible person appears, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright status is separate from personal or property clearance.
Research search match: Research matches include 1960s Michigan water skiing, 8mm lake vacation footage, vintage home movie water sport, and single-ski recreation on a lake.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1961 Michigan lake material, then broader vintage boating, water sport, or family holiday scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Michigan home-movie frame showing a shirtless man in red trunks water skiing on a lake with a tow rope and wake spray. — A water skier leans forward across the lake while spray trails behind him.

1961 Michigan lake footage shows the skier pulled by a tow rope, moving rightward across the water in soft 8mm color. — The skier continues across open water, pulled by a rope over a spreading wake.

A shirtless man in red trunks skis across a Michigan lake, with white spray, a tow rope, and a distant wooded shoreline visible. — The skier cuts across the lake as spray breaks around the single ski.

The skier moves farther away across a Michigan lake, leaving a wake with trees and lakeside houses along the distant shoreline. — The water skier moves into the distance with shoreline homes behind the lake.

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