Wisconsin USA-1958: Barge Drifting Across Water on Sunny Day

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Barge Drifting Across Water on Sunny Day — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1958 showing a long barge or floating platform drifting across a calm body of water in Wisconsin. The clip captures the vessel moving slowly from left to right, with a distant shoreline and a long bridge visible in the background. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: deep blue color cast, noticeable grain, and dark vignette borders. The scene is shot during daylight under clear skies, with gentle water ripples reflecting the light. This authentic archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American waterways and transportation.

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: 121500010

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: Useful for 1950s Wisconsin waterway or transportation requests needing brief home-movie coverage of a barge-like vessel on open water.
Period detail: The 1958 dating is supported by metadata, while the visible clues are mainly the 8mm color stock, small vessel form, shoreline, and mid-century home-movie framing.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged shoreline or boat-passenger viewpoint, watching a long vessel drift slowly across the water without performed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include deep blue open water, a long barge-like platform, pale structures on the vessel, distant tree-lined shore, low bridge or causeway, clear sky, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage shows dense blue color, coarse 8mm grain, soft focus, handheld framing, and heavy vignette borders that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transition, travel insert, or quiet memory beat for mid-century lakes, rivers, ferries, or regional transportation.
Historical context: The scene documents everyday leisure or travel observation around a Wisconsin body of water, with emphasis on open water, shoreline distance, and modest vessel movement.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, vessel identification, and any property concerns should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 Wisconsin 8mm waterway footage, barge on lake, vintage home movie boat, blue water shoreline, or mid-century American transportation cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Wisconsin water scenes, and then broader 1950s home-movie footage of boats, lakes, bridges, or shoreline travel.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a long barge-like vessel on blue water with a low shoreline and dark film edges. — A long vessel moves across open blue water with shoreline in the distance.

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame with a barge-like platform near the right edge, open water, distant shore, and dark vignette borders. — The vessel drifts toward the right edge as rippled water fills the foreground.

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing the barge-like vessel farther right, with open water, low shore, and soft handheld framing. — The long vessel remains near the right side against a distant low shoreline.

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame with the vessel mostly leaving view, open water, distant bridge or shoreline, and heavy dark film borders. — The vessel slips mostly out of frame, leaving open water and distant shore features.

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