Wisconsin USA-1958: Waterskier on Calm Lake

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Waterskier on Calm Lake — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin USA in 1958 captures a person water skiing on a calm lake. The skier, wearing a dark swimsuit, glides across the water while holding a tow rope, with a tree-lined shore visible in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, saturated blue tones, and noticeable grain. The skier maintains balance, creating a spray of water, and briefly raises an arm in a wave. The footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century summer recreation and leisure activities.

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: 121499600

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 Wisconsin leisure requests needing real home-movie footage of summer lake recreation and water skiing.
Period detail: The frame may show mid-century vacation clothing, wooden shoreline structures, and recreational water skis consistent with the 1958 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The skier balances, trails the tow rope, and briefly reads as a family or vacation subject filmed from a boat rather than a staged production.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a water skier, tow rope, paired skis, lake surface, tree-lined shore, water spray, and distant lakeside structures.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, saturated blue water, coarse grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame borders that add physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, memory beat, or recreational cutaway within a sequence on family vacations, lakes, or mid-century summer sport.
Historical context: The clip documents ordinary warm-weather recreation on a Wisconsin lake without supporting claims about a specific town, resort, or event.
Research note: A person is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or audible music are indicated, and copyright clearance remains separate from personal rights.
Research search match: Search matches include 1958 Wisconsin lake water skiing, 8mm home movie summer recreation, vintage family vacation sports, and mid-century lake leisure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Wisconsin 1958 lake material, and then with broader 1950s summer recreation or water-sport footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a water skier on paired skis trailing a tow rope across a tree-lined lake. — A skier rides behind the camera boat across a blue lake, with shoreline trees in the background.

Water skier in a dark swimsuit moves across a Wisconsin lake in soft 8mm footage from 1958. — The skier glides near the right side of the frame as the tow rope stretches back across the water.

Soft 8mm frame of a skier leaning on paired skis during a 1958 Wisconsin lake outing. — The skier leans into the pull while spray spreads behind the skis on the lake surface.

Wider 1958 Wisconsin lake view with a water skier, tow rope, wooded shoreline, and distant lakeside structures. — A wider view places the skier on open water with a wooded shore and small lakeside structures beyond.

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