Wisconsin USA-1958: Man Water Skiing Behind Motorboat

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Man Water Skiing Behind Motorboat — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin USA in 1958 shows a man water skiing behind a motorboat on a calm lake. The clip captures the skier gliding across the water, pulled by the boat, with a rural landscape of rolling hills and trees in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, with a dark frame border suggesting a projected home movie. The scene evokes mid-century American leisure and nostalgia.

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: 121499359

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, watersports, and home-movie recreation requests needing a brief lake boating or water-skiing insert.
Period detail: The small motorboat, simple water-ski setup, rural shoreline, and faded 8mm color may show mid-century vacation or lake recreation in Wisconsin.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie view of a skier being pulled across open water while the camera follows from shore or another fixed vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a motorboat, a water skier, tow spray, calm lake water, distant hills, tree-lined shoreline, sky, and dark film frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, muted color, light exposure variation, minor blur, scratches, and projected-frame borders that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, memory beat, or transitional insert for mid-century summer recreation, family travel, or lake-life sequences.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational boating and water skiing as visible leisure activity in a rural lakeside setting, without identifying the participants or exact lake.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance remains separate.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 Wisconsin 8mm home movie water skiing, vintage lake motorboat footage, and 1950s American watersports recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Wisconsin 1958 lake material, then broader 1950s boating, summer recreation, and family travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a small motorboat crossing calm lake water with a distant tree-lined shore and low hills. — A small motorboat travels across the lake, leaving a pale wake against the rural shoreline.

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame showing a water skier being pulled behind a small motorboat on a rural lake. — The skier rides behind the boat as spray breaks across the surface of the lake.

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame with a skier trailing a motorboat on calm lake water, backed by rural hills and trees. — Boat and skier continue across the water, with the skier cutting through the wake.

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame showing a small motorboat on open lake water with distant hills and shoreline in view. — The boat moves away across open water, framed by a distant wooded shoreline and hills.

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