Wisconsin USA-1957: Fisherman Casting Line from Wooden Pier

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Fisherman Casting Line from Wooden Pier — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin, USA, in 1957, showing a man fishing from a wooden pier on a calm river. The camera pans across the water, capturing the man in a light jacket and cap casting his line. The scene features a rustic lakeside setting with houses and bare trees in the background, rendered in authentic 1950s film grain and color palette. The footage offers a peaceful, nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American leisure, with natural lighting and a slightly shaky, authentic home movie feel.

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: 121496239

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Wisconsin leisure, fishing, riverside recreation, or mid-century home-movie cutaways in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The clothing, wooden pier, 8mm color stock, bare shoreline trees, and modest waterfront setting support a late-1950s home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged view of a man fishing from a pier as the camera pans across the water from a casual observer's position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wooden pier or dock, blue river water, a man in a cap and jacket, shoreline rocks, bare trees, small houses, and parked cars.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight blur during movement, handheld framing, and uneven exposure typical of scanned home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, memory beat, recreational insert, or transition between broader scenes of Wisconsin outdoor life.
Historical context: The scene shows everyday mid-century leisure along a Wisconsin waterfront without indicating a specific town, event, or named location.
Research note: A person is visible from a distance, so likeness review may be needed, while no readable logos or obvious commercial signs appear in these frames.
Research search match: Searches for 1950s Wisconsin fishing, 8mm home movie river pier, man casting line, lakeside recreation, and mid-century outdoor leisure may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel waterfront shots, then other Wisconsin 1957 footage, then broader 1950s fishing, river, dock, and leisure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Wisconsin home-movie frame showing a wooden pier beside blue water, shoreline rocks, a road, bare trees, and distant vehicles. — The camera looks from the pier toward the shoreline road and winter-bare trees.

1957 Wisconsin home-movie frame of a man seen from behind on a wooden pier, facing choppy blue river water and a distant shoreline. — A man stands on the pier facing the river, with houses and trees across the water.

1957 Wisconsin home-movie frame with motion blur as the camera pans past a man fishing beside blue river water. — The pan catches the fisherman in motion blur against the open water.

1957 Wisconsin home-movie frame showing open river water, bare shoreline trees, small houses, and distant waterfront structures. — The camera finishes on the river and the opposite shoreline with houses and bare trees.

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