South Dakota USA-1954: Woman Playing in Lake with Yellow Buoy

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Year1954
Decade1950s
LocationSouth Dakota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1954 South Dakota

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Woman Playing in Lake with Yellow Buoy — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1954 in South Dakota, showing a woman in a dark swimsuit and white swim cap enjoying a sunny day in a lake. She splashes and plays in the water near a large yellow barrel buoy, with a forested shoreline in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, capturing a candid moment of summer recreation. The scene conveys a nostalgic, carefree mood typical of mid-century family vacations.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122626330

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.

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: Yes
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: 1954 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: South Dakota, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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 U.S. home-movie requests needing summer lake recreation, swimming, or family-vacation atmosphere from original 8mm footage.
Period detail: The dark one-piece swimsuit, white swim cap, saturated color, and 8mm home-movie handling support a mid-1950s vacation-recreation reading.
Home-movie behavior: The woman appears relaxed and playful, turning toward the camera, splashing, and handling a yellow buoy in an unstaged lake scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in lake water, a white swim cap, a dark swimsuit, a yellow barrel buoy, rippled blue water, floating vegetation, and a forested shoreline.
Film character: The scan carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, blue-biased color, handheld framing, edge falloff, and slight motion blur that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, summer-memory cutaway, vacation transition, or light recreation beat within a mid-century family sequence.
Historical context: The clip shows informal outdoor leisure at a wooded lake, reflecting a private home-movie view of warm-weather recreation rather than a documented public event.
Research note: A recognizable face is visible, and rights review should consider likeness permissions, copyright status, and the metadata flag for possible logos or brands.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s 8mm lake swimming, South Dakota home movie, woman in swim cap, yellow buoy, summer vacation footage, and mid-century recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other South Dakota 1954 lake material, then broader 1950s swimming and family-vacation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Soft 1954 South Dakota 8mm frame showing blue lake water with floating vegetation or debris near the surface. — Floating material breaks the surface of the lake water.

1954 South Dakota home-movie frame of a woman in a white swim cap and dark swimsuit swimming beside a yellow barrel buoy. — A swimmer moves through lake water beside a yellow buoy.

1954 South Dakota 8mm frame showing a woman in a white swim cap standing in lake water before a forested shoreline. — The swimmer pauses chest-deep in the lake and looks toward the camera.

Soft 1954 South Dakota lake frame with a partially cropped swimmer reaching over the water near floating vegetation. — The swimmer reaches across the water as the handheld frame crops her body.

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