Wisconsin USA-1957: Still Lake with Rolling Hills Under Overcast Sky

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Still Lake with Rolling Hills Under Overcast Sky — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin, USA, in 1957, showing a serene, misty lake view through a window frame. The scene features calm, still water with distant rolling hills under a hazy, overcast sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural imperfections like dust and scratches, capturing a nostalgic, peaceful moment. A small boat briefly appears on the water, adding subtle movement to the tranquil landscape. The footage evokes a quiet, reflective mood, perfect for historical or nostalgic content.

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: 121495342

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 1219 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: oke lake,cottage,ice fishing,swimming
Reel-level year note: 1957
Reel-level location note: wisconsin
Date: 1957 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: Wisconsin, 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 Wisconsin 8mm lake scenery suited to documentary inserts, regional travel context, memory sequences, or quiet rural landscape transitions.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century home-movie lake viewing, with no visible vehicles, signage, clothing, or architecture to independently date the scene beyond the supplied 1957 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the lake from behind a window or dark vertical frame, giving the scene an unstaged visitor viewpoint rather than a composed commercial landscape shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include still water, hazy rolling hills, a pale overcast sky, dark window-frame divisions, shoreline trees, film dust, and light scratches.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, muted color, visible grain, gate edges, dust, scratches, and slight exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a reflective cutaway, establishing insert, passage-of-time transition, or quiet memory beat between more specific Wisconsin or family-reel scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents a calm lake view from a private or domestic vantage point, reflecting leisure observation of regional scenery without identifiable people or events.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private-property identifiers are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any property-use questions should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1957 Wisconsin lake 8mm footage, 1950s home movie scenic water view, misty lake through window, and vintage rolling hills landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wisconsin 1957 material, then broader 1950s lake, rural landscape, and home-movie travel scenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing still lake water and distant rolling hills through a dark window-like frame. — A muted lake view with distant hills appears through dark frame divisions.

1957 Wisconsin home-movie view of calm lake water and hazy hills framed by dark vertical edges. — Calm water and low hills sit beneath a washed, overcast sky.

1957 Wisconsin 8mm still showing hazy lake water, low shoreline hills, and visible film scratches. — A quiet lake horizon is softened by haze, grain, and surface wear.

1957 Wisconsin lake scene with shoreline trees in silhouette, still water, hazy hills, and dark frame edges. — Foreground trees and shoreline partially frame the calm water and distant hills.

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