Wisconsin USA-1958: Water Skier on Lake with Tree-Lined Shore

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Water Skier on Lake with Tree-Lined Shore — 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 light-colored shirt and dark shorts, glides across the water, leaving a trail of white spray. The scene is framed by a dark border, with a tree-lined shore and distant houses visible in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American summer recreation. The sky is overcast, and the water reflects a deep blue-purple hue, characteristic of aged film stock. This authentic archival clip showcases a classic 1950s leisure activity in a natural lakeside setting.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121499627

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 or summer recreation edits needing authentic 8mm home-movie water-skiing footage from Wisconsin.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century lake recreation, with period cues limited to the 1958 8mm color stock, swimwear silhouette, tow-sport activity, and lakeside homes.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged family-camera view of a skier being followed from a boat or shoreline as they move across open water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a water skier, lake surface, white spray, forested shoreline, distant lakeside buildings, cloudy sky, dark film borders, and contact-sheet framing.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, color shift toward blue and purple, handheld framing, and slight motion blur consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, summer memory beat, recreational cutaway, or transition within a sequence about lakes, family travel, or 1950s leisure.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational boating and water skiing in a wooded Wisconsin lake setting without identifying the lake, family, or specific property.
Research note: A person is visible but not clearly identifiable, and distant lakeside structures appear in frame, so likeness, property, and copyright status should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Wisconsin 8mm water skiing, vintage lake recreation, mid-century summer home movie, forested shoreline, and family vacation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel lake or boating shots, then Wisconsin 1958 material, then broader 1950s water-sport or summer recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a water skier on a lake, with white spray, wooded shoreline, and distant lakeside buildings. — Water skier crosses the lake in front of a wooded Wisconsin shoreline.

Wisconsin lake scene from 1958 home-movie footage, with wooded shore, cloudy sky, and the skier partly visible near the lower edge. — The camera drifts toward the wooded shoreline as the skier drops low in frame.

A soft 8mm view of a Wisconsin lake and tree-covered hillside, with the water skier only partly visible near the bottom edge. — Wooded shoreline and open lake remain in view as the skier slips toward the frame edge.

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame of a water skier moving away across blue lake water, with forested shore and distant buildings behind. — The skier continues across the lake, leaving a small trail of spray.

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