Wisconsin USA-1958: Man in White Cap Looks at Camera as Another Man Turns

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Man in White Cap Looks at Camera as Another Man Turns — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin, USA, in 1958, showing a man in a white cap and blue jacket looking toward the camera, followed by a man in a blue plaid shirt turning his head in profile against a dark blue wooden wall. The clip captures candid moments of men in casual attire, with natural lighting and authentic film grain, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American atmosphere. The sequence includes subtle movements and interactions, characteristic of personal family recordings from the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121501120

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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: This clip suits archival requests for late-1950s Wisconsin home-movie footage of casually dressed men in an outdoor social setting for documentary, education, or memory-sequence use.
Period detail: The blue plaid shirt, white cap, casual jackets, and 8mm color home-movie texture may show mid-century everyday dress and filming habits consistent with the supplied 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged gestures, with one man glancing toward the camera and another turning in profile as if caught during a casual conversation or gathering.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adult men, a white cap, a blue jacket, a blue plaid shirt, a dark blue wooden wall, outdoor sunlight, and a small table or chair in the background of the final frame.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, strong contrast, blue-shadow color cast, slight softness, and handheld home-movie framing that preserve the physical-film character of the source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, transitional memory beat, or character-observation insert within a mid-century family, community, or regional-life sequence.
Historical context: The frames show ordinary adult men in casual clothing outdoors, offering social context for everyday Wisconsin home-movie documentation without supporting any specific event or public setting claim.
Research note: Faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed, while no visible logos, minors, audible music, or clearly identifiable private property are evident from the supplied frames and metadata.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 Wisconsin 8mm home movie men outdoors, mid-century men in plaid shirt, white cap man looking at camera, and vintage family gathering cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1958 Wisconsin material, and then with home-movie scenes of casual adult gatherings or candid outdoor portraits.

Still Frames From This Clip

Man in profile by a blue wooden wall.

Man turning with another figure behind him.

The same adult man in a blue plaid shirt appears lower in the handheld frame as he moves or turns beside a dark blue wooden wall. — Man moving beside the wall.

An adult man in a light plaid shirt with a dark collar looks toward the camera in outdoor 1958 Wisconsin home-movie footage, with furniture partly visible behind him. — Man looking toward the camera outdoors.

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