Wisconsin USA-1958: Boat on Lake with Grassy Shoreline and Hills

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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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Boat on Lake with Grassy Shoreline and Hills — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin USA in 1958, showing a serene lake or river landscape with a small boat moving across the water. The scene features a grassy shoreline, dense trees, and rolling hills under a dramatic blue and purple sky with scattered clouds. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a soft focus, capturing a nostalgic moment of outdoor recreation. The camera remains steady, offering a panoramic view of the natural scenery, with a dark frame border suggesting the original film strip. This authentic archival clip evokes mid-century Americana and is ideal for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific projects.

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: 121500385

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 landscape footage for productions needing quiet inland water, shoreline, and small-boat recreation context.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century leisure travel through its home-movie framing, small boats, and undeveloped grassy shoreline rather than through identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged observer's view from shore, holding on water, hills, sky, reeds, and distant boats without visible people posing for camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark film-frame borders, blue water, grassy reeds, distant small boats, tree-covered hills, shoreline, and clouded sky.
Film character: The footage carries soft 8mm focus, visible grain, blue-purple color shift, uneven exposure, and slight gate framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm establishing insert, travel transition, nature cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a 1950s Midwest sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents outdoor recreation and rural waterside scenery in Wisconsin, with no visible urban development or identifiable public event in frame.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any use-specific property or access concerns should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Wisconsin 8mm lake footage, mid-century boating home movie, river shoreline reeds, and 1950s Midwest landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wisconsin 1958 material, then broader 1950s boating, lakeside, and rural landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing blue water, reeds, a distant small boat, wooded hills, and clouded sky through dark film-frame edges. — Distant boat on inland water below a wooded hillside and clouded sky.

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame with calm water, a grassy far shore, dark wooded hill, clouded sky, and a small boat at right. — Small boat crosses near the far shore under a dark wooded hill.

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing inland water, marshy grass, a dark tree-covered hill, cloudy sky, and soft film grain. — Marshy shoreline and water beneath a dark wooded hillside.

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame with foreground reeds, blue water, green shoreline, wooded hill, and clouded sky in soft focus. — Reeds and blue water frame a quiet green shoreline and wooded hill.

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