Colorado USA-1959: A Kayak Skimming Across A Large Body Of Water And A Cut Away

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Kayak Skimming Across A Large Body Of Water And A Cut Away — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado USA in 1959 captures a person water skiing across a calm lake, viewed through a dark frame border. The scene transitions to a dense forest of tall pine trees on a hillside under a bright sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American outdoor recreation moment. The footage is ideal for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or nostalgic content about 1950s leisure activities.

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: 121131985

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 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Colorado 8mm home-movie footage for requests needing outdoor recreation on a lake followed by evergreen hillside cutaways.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century leisure travel, with a distant water skier or small craft user and undeveloped pine-covered slopes as visible era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual handheld framing, shifting from a brief lakeside action view to quiet scenery as a home-movie camera records a trip moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include lake water, a distant person on the water, dark film-frame borders, pine trees, wooded hillsides, bright sky, and soft exposure falloff.
Film character: The clip has 8mm grain, soft focus, faded color, handheld framing, and dark gate edges that signal original physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short recreation insert, a scenic cutaway, or a memory beat linking lake activity with Colorado forest landscape.
Historical context: The scene supports a modest visual context of postwar American outdoor leisure without identifying the people, lake, or exact site from the frames alone.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed, while no logos, music, or clear private property are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1950s Colorado lake recreation 8mm, vintage water skiing home movie, pine forest hillside cutaway, and mid-century travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Colorado lake or forest footage, then broader 1950s outdoor recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Colorado 8mm frame showing a distant person on lake water, partly cropped by dark gate edges. — A distant figure skims across calm lake water at the edge of the frame.

Colorado 1959 home-movie frame of dense evergreen trees on a hillside under a pale sky. — The camera cuts to a wooded hillside with tall pines and soft exposure.

1959 Colorado 8mm frame showing a forested slope of tall pines, viewed in soft home-movie focus. — Tall pines fill the frame as the handheld camera rests on the hillside view.

Colorado 1959 home-movie frame of pine trees on a sloping forested hillside with visible film borders. — The scenic cutaway continues across a pine-covered slope beneath a bright sky.

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