Wisconsin USA-1957: Ocean Crashing Against A Frozen Landscape In The Day Time

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Ocean Crashing Against A Frozen Landscape In The Day Time — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin, USA, in 1957, capturing a frozen shoreline with waves crashing against ice-covered rocks and frosted vegetation. The grainy, color-bleached film shows a cold winter day with a dark, choppy body of water and a snow-dusted landscape. In the background, a distant shoreline features houses and bare trees, suggesting a rural lakeside or riverbank setting. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics with natural camera shake and a nostalgic, authentic 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: 121496267

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: Useful for 1950s Wisconsin archival requests needing winter shoreline, rough water, frozen vegetation, or cold-weather nature cutaways from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century lakeside or riverbank area with distant cars, small structures, bare trees, snow, and ice formations along the shore.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie perspective, observing waves and ice from a fixed shoreline viewpoint rather than presenting a planned scenic survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark choppy water, wave spray, ice-coated rocks or plants, snow-dusted ground, bare trees, distant parked cars, and small shoreline buildings.
Film character: The 8mm footage shows soft focus, visible grain, muted winter color, gate edges, and slight handheld instability that give the scene physical archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a winter establishing insert, weather transition, shoreline cutaway, or brief memory beat for cold Midwestern landscape material.
Historical context: The scene documents a cold outdoor shoreline environment with nearby settlement visible across the water, without showing people or identifiable activity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or clear brands are visible, but copyright, location, and any property identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Researchers might find this under 1957 Wisconsin 8mm winter shoreline, frozen lake waves, icy shore home movie, or mid-century cold weather cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then Wisconsin or 1957 winter footage, then broader frozen shoreline, waves, lake, snow, and home-movie nature scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing choppy water striking an icy shore with frozen vegetation and snow in view. — Waves meet ice-coated shoreline plants beside a dark winter body of water.

1957 Wisconsin home-movie frame of rough water and white ice formations along a frozen shore. — Choppy water pushes against a snow-dusted, ice-coated shoreline.

1957 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing icy shore foreground with rough water and a distant lakeside or riverbank area beyond. — A wider view reveals distant cars and buildings across the choppy winter water.

1957 Wisconsin home-movie frame with frozen shoreline vegetation, rough dark water, and a snow-lined opposite bank. — Frozen plants line the shore as waves move across the dark water.

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