Wisconsin USA-1958: Person Water Skiing on Lake

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Person Water Skiing on 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 being pulled by a rope, creating a white spray behind them. The scene is filmed from a moving boat, with the rope visible in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including a distinct blue color cast, grain, and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic 1950s summer vacation atmosphere. The shoreline with trees and a distant house is visible in the background.

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: 121499681

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 home-movie footage for requests needing recreational lake life, water skiing, or summer vacation inserts with an amateur 8mm perspective.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1950s leisure boating culture through the single tow rope, simple water ski, dark swimsuit, wooded shoreline, and lakefront setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera rides in the tow boat, giving an unstaged family-vacation view of one skier moving across the wake and spray.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a water skier, tow rope, blue lake surface, boat wake, white spray, wooded shore, distant lakefront structures, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has saturated blue color, soft focus, visible grain, slight blur, and handheld framing from a moving boat.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief recreation insert, lakeside transition, summer memory beat, or cutaway in a sequence about mid-century vacations.
Historical context: The scene documents informal outdoor recreation on a Wisconsin lake without identifying the skier, exact lake, or property along the shore.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright status is separate from any personal or property rights.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Wisconsin 8mm water skiing, 1950s lake vacation home movie, tow boat skier footage, and vintage summer recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Wisconsin or 1958 lake footage, then broader home-movie scenes of boating, swimming, and summer recreation.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame showing a single water skier behind a boat on a lake, with wake, spray, and shoreline in the distance. — A skier trails the tow boat as the rope cuts across the lake surface.

The skier moves across the water on a Wisconsin lake, with the tow rope visible from the boat and a spray trail behind them. — The skier cuts across the wake, leaving a streak of white spray.

Home-movie frame of one person water skiing behind a boat, with the rope visible at lower left and wooded Wisconsin shoreline beyond. — The skier glides near the frame edge as the rope stretches back from the boat.

A distant skier continues across the lake in 1958 Wisconsin footage, with the tow rope, rippled water, and dark wooded shore visible. — The skier recedes toward the right as the boat wake spreads across the lake.

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