Wisconsin USA-1958: Just A Little Off The Top

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Just A Little Off The Top — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin, USA, in 1958 shows two bald men outdoors in a suburban backyard. One man in a white shirt and red striped tie smiles as the other, wearing a blue plaid shirt, playfully shaves the top of his head with a small tool, creating a humorous moment. The scene includes a house, a tennis net, and classic cars in the background under a bright sky, capturing authentic mid-century Americana with natural film grain and color fading.

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: 121501381

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: Useful for 1950s Wisconsin home-movie requests needing a brief humorous backyard grooming gag with visible adults and suburban leisure details.
Period detail: The white dress shirt, striped tie, plaid shirt, lawn setting, and small backyard net support a mid-century domestic leisure reading, consistent with the 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the casual, unstaged play between two smiling adult men as one pretends to shave or polish the other's bald head outdoors.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two bald adult men, a white shirt and striped tie, a blue plaid shirt, a round pale object or bald head, lawn, house exterior, netting, and distant cars.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and contact-frame edges that preserve the scanned home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short comic insert, family-memory beat, suburban transition, or cutaway for mid-century masculinity and informal social play.
Historical context: The scene shows a lighthearted backyard moment in a postwar suburban setting without enough evidence to identify the people, household, or occasion.
Research note: People's faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright status is separate from privacy or publicity rights.
Research search match: Search matches include 1950s Wisconsin 8mm home movie, bald men backyard joke, vintage shaving gag, suburban family film, and mid-century outdoor humor.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel family or backyard scenes, then other Wisconsin 1958 material, then broader 1950s home-movie humor or suburban leisure clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame of two bald adult men in a backyard, with one smiling in a white shirt and striped tie. — Two men face each other outdoors as the man in a white shirt smiles during the playful setup.

1958 Wisconsin backyard frame with two bald men, one smiling in a tie while the other raises or positions a pale round object near him. — The playful gesture begins as the man in plaid brings a pale round object close to the smiling man's head.

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame of a smiling man in a blue plaid shirt holding a pale round object against another bald man's head. — The man in plaid smiles toward the camera while pressing the pale object near the other man's head.

1958 Wisconsin backyard frame showing a man in plaid holding a pale round object against a smiling bald man's head during a comic bit. — The gag peaks as the man in plaid presses the pale object to the other man's head while both remain relaxed.

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