Wisconsin USA-1958: Lake with Mountain Ranges and Green Hills in Wisconsin

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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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Lake with Mountain Ranges and Green Hills in Wisconsin — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin USA in 1958, capturing panoramic views of a serene lake under partly sunny skies. The clip features rolling green hills and distant mountain ranges framed by a lush treeline, with gentle ripples on the water's surface. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and natural film distortion, offering authentic archival footage of a peaceful summer landscape. The perspective suggests a stationary camera shot from a boat or lakeside vantage point, with subtle shifts in framing across the five-second sequence. This nostalgic, retro-style footage is ideal for historical documentaries, nature projects, or vintage Americana content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121500350

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1950s Wisconsin editorial requests needing quiet lake scenery, vacation travel atmosphere, or non-urban landscape cutaways from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: Visible era clues are mainly the 8mm color home-movie texture, soft focus, and hand-framed lake views; the specific 1958 Wisconsin context is supported by clip metadata rather than visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the feel of a traveler or family member filming from a lakeside or boat vantage point, lingering on water, hills, clouds, and shoreline without staging.
What appears in frame: The frames show rippled lake water, partly cloudy sky, dark distant hills, green shoreline trees, reeds or low vegetation, and occasional foreground obstruction from the camera position.
Film character: The clip carries mid-century 8mm texture with visible grain, muted blue-green color, soft contrast, slight exposure variation, and hand-held or boat-influenced framing shifts.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a landscape insert, summer-vacation transition, regional establishing cutaway, or reflective memory beat between people-centered home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The view documents leisure-era lake scenery and rural or small-town landscape atmosphere, but it does not visibly identify a specific lake, town, landmark, or public event.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private property are visible, though copyright and location verification remain separate from likeness or property-release considerations.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s Wisconsin lake 8mm footage, vintage Midwest vacation scenery, home movie lake panorama, and archival summer landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wisconsin 1958 lake or vacation footage, then broader 1950s Midwest water, hills, and summer travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a lake, distant dark hills, and partly cloudy sky from a shaded or obstructed vantage point. — Lake and distant hills under broken cloud cover, with the view partly obscured in the foreground.

1958 Wisconsin 8mm view across rippled lake water toward a green shoreline and low hills beneath partly sunny clouds. — Open lake view toward a low green shoreline and hills beneath a bright, clouded sky.

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame looking across blue lake water to a wooded shoreline and low hills under broken clouds. — Blue lake water fills the foreground with trees and low hills along the horizon.

1958 Wisconsin 8mm shoreline view with dense trees, blue water, and small indistinct light objects near the lakeside. — Tree-lined shore beside the lake, with small indistinct lakeside objects visible near the water.

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