Wisconsin USA-1958: A Man Water Skiing On A Lake Being Pulled By A Motorboat

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Man Water Skiing On A Lake Being Pulled By A Motorboat — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin USA in 1958 shows a man water skiing on a placid lake, pulled by a motorboat. The skier, wearing a dark swimsuit, glides across the water with one arm raised, leaving a white wake behind. The scene is framed by a dark border, with a tree-lined shoreline visible in the background under a pale sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural motion blur, capturing a nostalgic moment of 1950s summer recreation and leisure.

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: 121499331

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 1211 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: family picnic,water skiing,lake wisconsin
Reel-level year note: 1958
Reel-level location note: wisconsin
Date: 1958 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 U.S. leisure, summer recreation, water skiing, and Wisconsin lake-life sequences in documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1950s recreational boating culture, with a lone skier, open lake setting, tree-lined shore, and informal home-movie framing supporting the stated 1958 context.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged family-film feel, watching a water skier pass across the lake from a fixed shoreline or boat-side vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the water skier, tow rope, motorboat wake, placid lake surface, distant wooded shoreline, low hills, pale sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, exposure variation, frame borders, and motion blur that give it authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief recreation insert, summer-memory transition, lake-life cutaway, or period leisure beat between broader 1950s family scenes.
Historical context: The scene reflects mid-century outdoor recreation as seen through a private home-movie camera, without enough visible detail to identify people, property, or a specific lake.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos, music, or clearly identifiable private property are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Search matches include 1958 Wisconsin 8mm water skiing, 1950s lake recreation home movie, man water skiing behind motorboat, and vintage summer sports footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Wisconsin 1958 lake scenes, then broader 1950s boating, swimming, vacation, and outdoor recreation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame showing a distant man water skiing across a lake with trees and shoreline in the background. — A water skier glides across the lake, leaving a wake near the tree-lined shore.

Wisconsin lake view from 1958 footage, with a skier partly near the frame edge and wake lines across the water. — The skier moves toward the edge of the frame as the tow wake stretches across the lake.

Distant water skier on a Wisconsin lake in 1958 home-movie footage, with low shoreline and soft film grain visible. — The skier passes near the edge of the camera view on the open lake.

End frame of the 1958 Wisconsin lake scene, showing the skier near the edge, wake marks, and wooded shoreline beyond. — Wake trails across the water as the skier exits the frame near the shoreline view.

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