Wisconsin USA-1958: Motorboat And Water Skier On Lake

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Motorboat And Water Skier On Lake — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin USA in 1958 shows a small motorboat speeding across a calm lake, leaving a white wake. A person rides the boat while another individual water skis behind, pulled by the boat. The scene unfolds against a backdrop of distant tree-lined hills under a pale sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, natural color fading, and visible grain, capturing a nostalgic summer day of recreational fun. The footage is framed by dark borders, typical of old film reels.

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: 121499375

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: Supports 1950s U.S. leisure or Wisconsin lake recreation requests needing brief home-movie footage of a motorboat towing a water skier.
Period detail: The soft color, 8mm frame borders, small runabout boat, and casual water skiing may show mid-century vacation recreation in 1958 Wisconsin.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged family-film viewpoint, watching a boat and skier pass across open water from a distant shore or another lakeside vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small motorboat, a water skier, white wake trails, calm lake water, distant tree-lined hills, pale sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, uneven exposure, and gate edges from the original scanned film.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a quick insert, summer recreation cutaway, lake-transition shot, or memory beat for mid-century outdoor leisure.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational boating and water skiing as visible leisure activity on a U.S. lake, without identifiable public landmarks or events.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Wisconsin 8mm lake footage, vintage water skiing home movie, motorboat towing skier, and 1950s summer recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Wisconsin 1958 lake scenes, then broader 1950s boating, vacation, and outdoor recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a small motorboat on calm lake water with a water skier following in its wake. — A motorboat pulls a skier across the lake, with low hills in the distance.

A distant water skier moves across a Wisconsin lake in 1958, with boat wake and low shoreline hills behind. — The skier follows the boat wake across open water near a distant shoreline.

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame of a water skier gliding across calm water with hills and shoreline in the background. — The water skier continues across the lake, leaving a low spray and wake.

A distant skier rides over calm Wisconsin lake water in 1958, framed by a wooded shoreline and soft 8mm exposure. — The skier passes in front of a darker wooded shoreline near the end of the clip.

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