Wisconsin USA-1953: A Man With His Baby Riding In The Boat At The Lake

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Wisconsin

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A Man With His Baby Riding In The Boat At The Lake — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin USA in 1953, showing a serene lakeside scene with a house nestled among dense pine trees. The clip captures a man and a baby on a boat, viewed from behind, with the man wearing a light-colored shirt and a patterned hat. The water appears in a distinctive purple hue, likely due to film stock coloration, and the footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and slight motion blur. The camera remains mostly static, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a family outing on a calm summer day.

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: 121493144

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 1212 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1953-1954
Reel-level location note: wisconsin
Date: 1953 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Wisconsin, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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 1950s Wisconsin lake recreation, family boating, and home-movie memory sequences in documentary, museum, education, or period editorial work.
Period detail: The 1953 date is supported by metadata, while the small motorboat, casual summer clothing, and lakeside houses may show mid-century vacation life.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in an unstaged family outing, with the camera watching from the boat as an adult holds or steadies a baby near the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include lake water, pine-lined shore, a distant lakeside house, a small boat rail, an adult man, a baby, summer clothing, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, soft focus, slight motion blur, uneven exposure, and color shift that reads as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, lakeside cutaway, family travel insert, or transition into a sequence about summer recreation.
Historical context: The clip offers a domestic view of postwar-era leisure without proving a specific family identity, exact lake, or social event beyond boating in Wisconsin.
Research note: People and a baby are visible, so likeness and minor-related review may be needed; copyright, location, and property questions remain separate from appearance rights.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under searches for 1953 Wisconsin 8mm home movie, family boating on lake, baby in boat, lakeside vacation, and mid-century summer footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wisconsin 1953 lake scenes, then broader 1950s family vacation or boating material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing rippled lake water, dense trees, and a distant lakeside house across the shore. — A quiet lake view with trees and a distant house on the shoreline.

1953 Wisconsin home-movie frame from a boat, with an adult and baby seen from behind near the rail. — An adult and baby sit or lean forward in a boat on the lake.

1953 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a man in a light shirt with a baby beside him as the boat passes the wooded shore. — A man sits close to a baby while the boat moves near the shoreline.

1953 Wisconsin home-movie frame with a man viewed from behind on a boat as a baby sits close beside him near the water. — The man and baby remain framed from behind against lake water and trees.

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