Wisconsin USA-1958: Man Water Skis on Sunny Lake

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Man Water Skis on Sunny Lake — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin USA in 1958 shows a man water skiing on a calm lake. The clip captures him being pulled by a rope, starting from a seated position in the water and gradually rising to a standing stance. The scene unfolds under a bright, sunny sky with a tree-lined shore in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a dark border, characteristic of mid-century amateur recordings. This nostalgic archival clip offers authentic 1950s Americana and outdoor recreation.

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: 121499560

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: 1950s Wisconsin lake recreation footage suited to documentary inserts about mid-century leisure, summer holidays, or amateur water-skiing scenes.
Period detail: The clip shows a 1958 home-movie view of open-water recreation, with a small skier, tow rope, tree-lined shore, and color 8mm texture as period clues.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from behind the tow line as the skier works up from the water, giving the scene an unstaged family-film perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include lake water, a tow rope, a water skier, splashing wake, distant wooded shoreline, bright sky, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, handheld framing, color shift toward blue-purple, and dark rounded borders from the physical film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, memory beat, or transitional cutaway for summer travel, lake recreation, or 1950s Americana sequences.
Historical context: The scene reflects outdoor leisure on a Wisconsin lake, showing water skiing as a casual home-movie subject rather than a staged sporting event.
Research note: A person is visible at distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos, music, or private property are apparent from the supplied frames.
Research search match: Searchers looking for 1958 Wisconsin 8mm lake footage, vintage water skiing, home movies of summer recreation, or mid-century boating scenes may find this relevant.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other Wisconsin 1958 lake scenes, then with broader 1950s outdoor recreation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a distant water skier starting in the lake near a tow rope, with wooded shoreline beyond. — A skier begins from the water as the tow rope stretches across the lake.

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame with a skier rising behind a tow rope on a lake, with trees and open sky in the background. — The skier rises behind the boat as wake and rope marks cut through the water.

1958 Wisconsin 8mm still of a water skier gaining balance, with spray, tow rope, rippled lake water, and wooded shore visible. — The skier gains balance while white spray spreads around the skis.

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame showing the skier continuing on the lake, with tow rope, wake, blue water, and distant trees. — The skier continues behind the boat, framed by open water and a distant wooded shore.

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