Wisconsin USA-1957: Man in Small Boat on Calm Lake

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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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Man in Small Boat on Calm Lake — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin, USA, in 1957, showing a serene lake scene with gentle waves and a small boat carrying a man. The clip features natural, sunlit water with a distant shoreline of trees and hills, captured with authentic film grain and slight color fading typical of mid-century amateur film. The camera remains steady, offering a nostalgic glimpse into a quiet lakeside moment from the 1950s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121496280

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: Supports 1950s Wisconsin lake-life requests needing quiet 8mm home-movie water, shoreline, and small-boat atmosphere for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century recreational lakeside scenery, with a small rowboat, undeveloped wooded shore, soft color, and amateur 8mm framing consistent with the 1957 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual, unstaged observation of water, shore, and a lone boater from a family-film viewpoint rather than a composed commercial scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippling lake water, pale shoreline ice or rocks, a small boat with a man, distant wooded hills, bare trees, and a low lakeside shore.
Film character: The clip carries authentic 8mm texture through visible grain, slight color fading, uneven exposure, soft focus, and contact-sheet frame edges from the scanned film.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a calm establishing insert, lake cutaway, seasonal transition, or memory beat within mid-century family, travel, or regional-history sequences.
Historical context: The scene reflects ordinary outdoor recreation around a Wisconsin lake, with emphasis on landscape and leisure rather than identifiable public events or landmarks.
Research note: A person is visible at distance, so likeness review may be needed even though no logos, music, or clearly identifiable private property appear in the provided frames.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1957 Wisconsin 8mm lake footage, vintage home movie small boat on lake, 1950s lakeshore cutaway, and mid-century water recreation film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Wisconsin 1957 lake scenes, then broader 1950s home-movie boating or quiet shoreline material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing choppy blue lake water near a pale icy or rocky shoreline edge. — Lake water moves past a pale shoreline edge in a soft 8mm frame.

1957 Wisconsin 8mm view of textured lake water with a pale shoreline rock or icy form near the foreground. — A close lake surface view shows small waves and a pale foreground shoreline form.

1957 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a man in a small boat on the lake with wooded shoreline and hills beyond. — A man sits in a small boat on the lake with the far shore behind him.

1957 Wisconsin 8mm frame of a quiet lake edge with bare trees, low shoreline, and distant wooded hills. — Bare shoreline trees and low land sit across the lake in a subdued home-movie view.

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