North Dakota USA-1953: Three People Ice Skating On A Clear Sunny Winter Day

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationNorth Dakota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Three People Ice Skating On A Clear Sunny Winter Day — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from North Dakota, USA, in 1953, showing people ice skating on a frozen lake. The clip features individuals in winter coats and hats gliding across the ice under a clear sky, with a vast open field in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and natural light, capturing a nostalgic winter recreation scene. The footage includes moments of skating, walking, and one person falling, offering authentic archival material for historical or nostalgic 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: 122621695

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1953 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: North Dakota, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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: Useful for 1950s U.S. home-movie requests needing winter recreation, rural leisure, or ice-skating cutaways from North Dakota.
Period detail: The winter coats, plain outdoor setting, and small-group recreational skating support a mid-century home-movie reading, with the 1953 North Dakota date supplied by metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal movement: skaters glide, pause, and share the frozen surface without staging or performance framing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include three bundled skaters, a frozen lake surface, open brown fields, a pale winter sky, dark coats, white skate blades, and handheld framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and exposure shifts that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, seasonal transition, rural memory beat, or recreation cutaway within a family, sports, or winter sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents everyday outdoor leisure in a rural winter landscape, without showing identifiable landmarks, signage, or organized competition.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from visible-subject review.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s North Dakota home movies, 8mm ice skating, rural winter recreation, frozen lake skating, and mid-century family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then North Dakota 1953 material, then broader 1950s winter recreation or family leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A skater in dark winter clothing appears on a frozen North Dakota lake, with flat open fields and pale sky in the background. — Single skater on the ice against a wide rural winter landscape.

A person in winter clothing skates across the frozen lake, filmed in a soft 8mm home-movie frame in North Dakota. — Skater moving across the ice with a flat field beyond the lake.

Two people are visible on the frozen lake, one nearer the camera and one farther left, in a rural North Dakota winter setting. — Two skaters share the frozen surface beneath a clear winter sky.

A skater in a dark coat glides across the frozen lake, framed by dark 8mm gate edges and a wide rural horizon. — Skater gliding at frame edge with the winter field stretching behind.

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