Colorado USA-1959: Person Practicing Water Skiing on Lake

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Person Practicing Water Skiing on Lake — Clip Details

Vintage 1959 home movie footage from Colorado USA, captured on 8mm film, showing a person practicing water skiing on a lake. The clip features a small motorboat pulling a skier across the water, with wooden posts and an American flag visible in the foreground. The image has a classic retro quality with film grain, slight color fading, and a dark border typical of home movies. The scene evokes mid-century American recreation and nostalgia, with natural lighting and a casual, candid feel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121131956

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1704 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: 1
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: colorado
Date: 1959 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: Colorado, 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: Supports 1950s Colorado recreation requests needing real home-movie footage of lake water skiing, boating, and mid-century leisure for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The 1959 8mm metadata and faded color home-movie look may show mid-century lakeside recreation, with wooden posts, open water, and a small motorboat visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged shoreline viewpoint as a skier and boat pass at a distance, giving a casual family-film record of recreation rather than a posed sports scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled lake water, a distant motorboat, a water skier, shoreline trees or brush, wooden posts, dark film borders, and soft handheld framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows grain, color fading, uneven exposure, soft focus, and dark frame edges that contribute useful physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, recreation cutaway, summer-memory beat, or transitional shot for lake life and amateur sports sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually situates water skiing within everyday postwar leisure, while avoiding claims beyond the visible lakeside activity and supplied Colorado 1959 metadata.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, and rights review should consider likeness, any visible marks or flags, and copyright separately before publication or commercial use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1959 Colorado lake water skiing, vintage 8mm boating, mid-century home movie recreation, and water skier on lake footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Colorado 1959 lake scenes, then broader 1950s boating, water skiing, and summer recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Colorado home-movie frame showing a dark shoreline or bank beside lake water, with soft exposure and visible 8mm frame edges. — A dark shoreline detail appears beside the lake, framed by heavy 8mm borders.

A small motorboat crosses a Colorado lake in distant 1959 8mm footage, with rippled water and dark home-movie borders. — A distant motorboat moves across the lake surface.

The 1959 Colorado lake scene shows open rippled water and a foreground wooden post, seen through soft faded 8mm film. — Open lake water and a foreground post fill this transitional frame.

A distant person appears to water ski on a Colorado lake in 1959, with wooden posts and shoreline visible in the foreground and background. — A water skier passes in the distance beyond foreground posts.

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