Wisconsin USA-1958: Large Ship Navigating Choppy Waters

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Large Ship Navigating Choppy Waters — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin USA in 1958, showing a large ship navigating choppy blue waters under a dusky sky. The grainy, color-bleached film captures the vessel moving across the frame, with a distant shoreline and yellow buoys visible. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with dark borders and a nostalgic, archival quality, offering authentic period footage for historical or documentary projects.

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: 121499975

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 8mm waterway footage for documentary or museum edits needing a ship, choppy lake surface, and distant shoreline context.
Period detail: The small passenger or work vessel, yellow buoys, and soft color 8mm rendering may show mid-century recreational or transport activity on Wisconsin waters.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor-shot viewpoint from shore or another vessel, holding on water, horizon, and passing ship without formal coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark blue choppy water, a distant low shoreline, yellow buoys, a light-colored ship, dusky sky, and rounded 8mm frame borders.
Film character: Grain, slight softness, heavy blue cast, uneven exposure, and dark gate edges give the scan a clear physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief cutaway, waterside transition, travel-memory beat, or establishing insert for mid-century lake activity.
Historical context: The scene places a large vessel within open Wisconsin water and shoreline space, suggesting everyday lakeside movement rather than a staged event.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any vessel or location identification needs.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Wisconsin 8mm ship footage, choppy lake home movie, distant shoreline boat, and vintage waterway cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Wisconsin 1958 water scenes, then broader 1950s lake, boat, shoreline, and travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing choppy blue water, dark shoreline, and soft sky through rounded film borders. — Choppy water and distant shoreline fill the opening frame.

1958 Wisconsin 8mm view across choppy water toward a low shoreline, with small yellow buoys visible in the distance. — Yellow buoys appear near the horizon beyond the choppy water.

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame with a light-colored ship entering the view across choppy blue water, backed by buoys and low shoreline. — A ship comes into view across the water near distant buoys.

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a large light-colored ship riding on choppy blue water with a low distant shoreline behind it. — The ship is most visible as it rides across the choppy water.

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