Michigan USA-1961: Woman in One-Piece Suit Water Skiing

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

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Woman in One-Piece Suit Water Skiing — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Michigan, USA, in 1961, showing a woman water skiing on a calm lake. She wears a black and white one-piece bathing suit and grips a yellow tow rope, gliding across the water with a spray of white wake behind her. The scene is captured through a dark, rounded frame, typical of old film projectors, with visible grain and slight motion blur. The background features a tree-lined shore under bright daylight, evoking a nostalgic summer recreation scene from the early 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121080284

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 summer recreation, lake leisure, or water-skiing inserts for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The one-piece swimsuit, 8mm color stock, rounded projector-like frame edges, and tow-rope water-skiing scene support an early 1960s home-movie setting in Michigan.
Home-movie behavior: The skier appears casually filmed from shore or a shaded vantage point, preserving an unstaged family-recreation moment rather than a formal sports recording.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman water skiing, a yellow tow rope, white spray, calm lake water, a wooded shoreline, dark frame edges, and soft film blur.
Film character: The clip carries visible 8mm grain, rounded dark borders, slight motion blur, uneven exposure, and soft color typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief recreation insert, summer memory beat, lake-life cutaway, or transition within a sequence about midcentury leisure.
Historical context: The footage reflects domestic outdoor recreation and water-sports leisure in a 1961 Michigan home-movie context without identifying the lake or participants.
Research note: A person is visible but not clearly identifiable; copyright, likeness, and any location permissions should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Researchers may match this to searches for 1961 Michigan 8mm home movie water skiing, vintage lake recreation, woman skier, and 1960s summer leisure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel summer lake footage, then other 1961 Michigan home movies, then broader 1960s recreation or water-sports material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Michigan 8mm frame showing a woman in a one-piece swimsuit water skiing across a lake near a wooded shoreline. — A woman grips a tow rope while water skiing across calm lake water.

A woman water skis on a Michigan lake in 1961, leaning back as spray trails behind her in soft 8mm color footage. — The skier leans back while being pulled across the lake by a yellow rope.

1961 Michigan home-movie frame of a woman water skiing past the camera, with broad white wake and shoreline in the background. — A wide spray marks the skier's path across the lake.

A distant 1961 Michigan 8mm view shows a woman water skiing across green lake water, framed by dark film edges and a wooded shore. — The skier moves farther across the frame with wake spreading behind her.

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