Wisconsin USA-1958: Man Water Skiing on Lake

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Man Water Skiing on Lake — Clip Details

Vintage 1958 home movie footage from Wisconsin USA showing a man water skiing on a calm lake. The skier, wearing a dark bathing suit, glides across the water while holding a tow rope, with a tree-lined shore visible in the background. The clip exhibits classic 8mm film characteristics including grain, color fading, and a slightly faded purple-blue tint. The scene captures a moment of mid-century recreational fun, with a small boat visible in the distance. The footage is presented with original film borders, preserving its authentic archival quality.

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: 121499573

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. recreation requests needing authentic Wisconsin lake water-skiing home-movie footage for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The dark swimwear, small pleasure boat, tow rope, and 8mm color stock may show mid-century lake leisure consistent with the supplied 1958 Wisconsin metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage preserves an unstaged boat-side viewpoint as a man skis behind the camera boat across open water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a water skier, tow rope, lake surface, boat wake, wooded shoreline, distant small boat, film borders, and soft horizon.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, slight color fading, purple-blue cast, gate edges, and handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short recreation insert, lake-life cutaway, summer memory beat, or transition within a mid-century leisure sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents private recreational water skiing on a wooded Wisconsin lake, reflecting domestic leisure rather than a staged sporting event.
Research note: A person is visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed while copyright, location, and property questions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Researcher searches may include 1958 Wisconsin water skiing 8mm, 1950s lake recreation home movie, vintage tow rope skier, and mid-century summer footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel lake or boating scenes, then other 1958 Wisconsin footage, then broader 1950s U.S. summer recreation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame showing a man water skiing across a lake, seen from behind a tow rope with trees on the far shore. — A water skier follows the tow rope across open lake water.

A man in dark swimwear water skis on a Wisconsin lake, with rippled water, wake, and wooded shore visible in the 8mm frame. — The skier stays upright while crossing the wake behind the camera boat.

The 1958 Wisconsin lake scene shows a distant man water skiing behind the tow boat, with shoreline trees and dock or boat shapes nearby. — The skier moves farther back as the shoreline passes in the background.

A man water skis at the right side of the frame on a Wisconsin lake, leaning across the wake with the tow rope stretching toward the camera. — The skier angles across the wake with spray rising around the skis.

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