Baraboo Wisconsin USA-1953: Vintage Floatplane Gliding Across Lake

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationBaraboo, Wisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Wisconsin

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Vintage Floatplane Gliding Across Lake — Clip Details

BARABOO WISCONSIN USA-1953: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a classic floatplane gliding across a calm lake, its pontoons skimming the water's surface. The biplane, with a red propeller and dark fuselage, moves steadily from right to left, leaving a gentle wake. In the final frame, the tail of another aircraft with visible registration NC 88760 enters the foreground, suggesting a nearby airfield or observation point. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and characteristic 1950s home movie quality, evoking a sense of mid-century adventure and transportation in a serene, wooded lakeside setting.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
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: 124606060

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

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 1212 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1953-1954
Reel-level location note: wisconsin
Date: 1953 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: Baraboo, 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 requests needing 1950s Wisconsin home-movie footage of light aviation, lake travel, floatplanes, or mid-century recreational transportation.
Period detail: The clip may show 1950s floatplane activity, with pontoon landing gear, dark biplane-style wings, a red propeller area, and an aircraft tail marked NC 88760.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the aircraft from a nearby lakeside or aircraft vantage point, giving the scene the informal timing and proximity of home-movie documentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a floatplane on open water, wooded shoreline, rippled lake surface, pontoon floats, dark fuselage, film frame edges, and a second aircraft tail.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, blue color fading, visible grain, gate edges, and slight handheld instability consistent with original mid-century home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an aviation insert, lakeside travel cutaway, regional establishing detail, or quiet memory beat between broader 1950s transportation scenes.
Historical context: The footage places small aircraft and lake recreation in the same visual field, suggesting private or leisure aviation without confirming an airfield or event.
Research note: Review aircraft registration NC 88760, any visible markings, and possible identifiable people separately from copyright, since likeness and trademark issues may remain.
Research search match: Researchers may search for 1950s 8mm floatplane footage, Wisconsin lake aviation, vintage seaplane home movies, or Baraboo travel transportation scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Baraboo or Wisconsin 1953 clips, then broader 1950s lake, aircraft, travel, and transportation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Baraboo, Wisconsin home-movie frame showing a floatplane skimming across blue lake water near a wooded shore. — A floatplane travels across the lake, leaving a faint wake behind its pontoons.

The floatplane continues across the lake in the 1953 Wisconsin home-movie footage, seen against low wooded hills. — The aircraft glides over the rippled lake surface with the shoreline behind it.

A nearby aircraft tail appears at the left edge while the floatplane moves across the lake in Baraboo, Wisconsin footage. — A second aircraft tail enters the foreground as the floatplane passes on the water.

Foreground tail markings including NC 88760 are visible as the floatplane continues across the Wisconsin lake. — The marked tail of another aircraft frames the passing floatplane in the background.

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