Wisconsin USA-1957: Small Waves Hit Boulders By A Small Wooden Bridge In The

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Small Waves Hit Boulders By A Small Wooden Bridge In The — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin USA in 1957, showing a rural riverside scene. A classic 1950s sedan is parked near a small wooden bridge over a river with gentle waves lapping against large boulders. A person in a red jacket stands near the bridge, and the surrounding landscape features bare trees and a hillside. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic framing of a handheld Super 8 camera, capturing a nostalgic moment of everyday life in mid-century America.

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: 121496331

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 rural Wisconsin inserts, road-trip passages, riverside atmosphere, or everyday mid-century American home-movie context.
Period detail: The parked 1950s-era sedan, simple wooden bridge, rural road, and bare trees may show a mid-century recreational or travel stop in Wisconsin.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes an unstaged roadside river scene, lingering between the bridge, parked car, water, rocks, and a person standing nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small wooden bridge, rural road, parked dark sedan, person in a red jacket, river water, shoreline boulders, bare trees, and hillside.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, gate edges, and handheld framing that reflect original home-movie capture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, travel transition, memory beat, or establishing insert for rural water and road scenes.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for mid-century leisure travel or local roadside landscapes without proving a specific event or named landmark.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are readable, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property review.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950s Wisconsin 8mm riverside road, vintage home movie small bridge, rural shoreline boulders, and mid-century sedan near water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1957 Wisconsin material, then rural bridge, riverbank, road-trip, and mid-century car footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Wisconsin home-movie frame showing a rural road, parked dark sedan, small bridge, riverbank, bare trees, and hillside. — A dark sedan is parked near a small bridge by the river in a rural Wisconsin landscape.

1957 Wisconsin frame with a person in a red jacket near a small bridge, river, roadside barrier, bare trees, and hillside. — A person in a red jacket stands near the bridge as the rural road approaches the water.

1957 Wisconsin home-movie view of small waves, large boulders, a riverbank, rural road, bridge area, bare trees, and parked vehicle edge. — Small waves hit the bouldered shoreline beside the road and bridge area.

1957 Wisconsin frame showing waves against shoreline rocks, a rural road and bridge area, bare trees, hillside, and a partial dark sedan. — The camera settles on the rocky river edge with the road, bridge area, and parked car partly visible.

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