Wisconsin USA-1957: My First Boat Voyage On The River With My Friends

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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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My First Boat Voyage On The River With My Friends — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin USA in 1957, capturing a nostalgic summer day by a lake. A man in a red shirt and yellow life vest stands on a wooden dock, looking out over the water as a small white motorboat approaches. Three friends, including a woman in a white hat, board the boat while another man in a white t-shirt and cap watches. The scene unfolds with natural film grain, soft color palette, and authentic 1950s Americana, evoking a sense of youthful adventure and family memories.

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: 121496079

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 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Wisconsin home-movie requests needing recreational boating, lakeside leisure, friends gathering, or small-dock departure material.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century casual clothing, a simple wooden dock, a small white motorboat, and soft 8mm color consistent with the supplied 1957 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged pacing as friends approach, wait, and gather around the boat while one man stands on the dock watching the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wooden dock, calm water, distant shoreline, small motorboat, adults in casual summer clothing, and a yellow life vest.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, gate edges, and gentle handheld instability typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief memory beat, lakeside insert, boating cutaway, or transition into a summer recreation sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents ordinary social boating and waterfront leisure in a Wisconsin setting without enough visual evidence to identify the exact lake or town.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright, location, and personal releases should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1957 Wisconsin 8mm boating footage, mid-century lake dock home movie, friends boarding small motorboat, and vintage summer recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wisconsin 1957 waterfront scenes, then broader 1950s boating or summer leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Wisconsin home-movie frame showing a man in a yellow life vest on a wooden dock with lake or river water and distant shoreline behind him. — A man waits on the dock as the boat approaches from the water.

A small white motorboat pulls alongside a wooden dock in the Wisconsin 1957 home-movie scene, with adults seated near the bow and a man waiting at right. — The boat comes alongside the dock as friends prepare to board or settle in.

Adults gather in and around a small white motorboat beside a wooden dock, with a man in a yellow life vest standing near the edge in the 1957 Wisconsin footage. — Friends gather in the boat while the dockside figure looks toward them.

The boat is beside the dock with several adults visible, including a woman in a white hat, while a man in a yellow life vest stands at the dock edge. — The group gathers at the dock before the short boat outing continues.

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