Nevada USA-1957: Woman on Floating Platform in Lake

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationNevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Nevada

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Woman on Floating Platform in Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures a woman in a swimsuit walking across a floating platform on a calm lake. The platform, marked with 'SAFETY FIRST', gently bobs on the water as she moves toward the edge, preparing to swim. In the background, a dark, tree-covered hill rises against an overcast sky, with other swimmers visible in the distance. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and faded colors, evoking a nostalgic summer day of recreation. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring mid-century leisure.

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: 123477561

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: Yes
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1957 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: Nevada, 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

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Nevada lake recreation footage for documentary inserts, education programs, or editorial sequences about mid-century summer leisure and swimming areas.
Period detail: The swimsuit, floating swim platform, soft color 8mm look, and lakeside recreation scene support a late-1950s home-movie context without identifying a specific lake or landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged vacation view as a woman moves across a bobbing lake platform while swimmers and distant hills remain in the background.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a floating platform, a woman in swimwear, open lake water, distant swimmers, low hills or mountains, overcast sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, faded color, slight exposure fluctuation, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief summer-recreation cutaway, a lake-memory insert, or a transition between broader 1950s vacation and swimming scenes.
Historical context: The scene shows casual lake bathing and platform play in a mid-century home-movie setting, with recreation presented from a family or visitor viewpoint.
Research note: People and a visible platform marking require likeness and signage review; copyright status, privacy, and location permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1957 Nevada lake swimming, 8mm home movie floating platform, 1950s summer recreation, woman swimsuit lake, and family vacation water footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1957 Nevada lake scenes, then broader 1950s swimming, vacation, and summer recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Nevada home-movie frame showing a woman on a floating swim platform, with lake water, distant swimmers, and low hills in the background. — Woman stands on a floating platform during a lakeside swimming scene.

1957 Nevada home-movie frame showing open lake water, distant hills, and the edge of a floating swim platform at the right side of the frame. — Open lake and distant hills appear beside the edge of the swim platform.

1957 Nevada home-movie frame showing swimmers beside a floating platform corner, with open water and hazy hills stretching across the background. — Swimmers move in the water near the corner of the floating platform.

1957 Nevada home-movie frame showing the edge of a floating platform at left, rippled lake water, and low hills under a pale sky. — The camera drifts across open lake water as the platform slips partly out of view.

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