Baraboo Wisconsin USA-1953: View Of A River With Trees On The Edges Of It On A

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

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View Of A River With Trees On The Edges Of It On A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of a lake or river in Baraboo, Wisconsin. The footage features deep blue water bordered by a dense treeline under a bright sky, with natural film grain and slight color shifts typical of Super 8. The camera pans across the water, offering a peaceful countryside perspective. The final frame shows a bright, overexposed moment with two figures in a home setting, suggesting a personal family memory. This archival clip evokes nostalgia and is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or retro-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124606078

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 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 1950s Wisconsin home-movie requests needing a quiet river or lake view as documentary cutaway, rural transition, or memory-establishing landscape.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century amateur 8mm travel or family filming, with no visible vehicles, signage, clothing, or landmarks to confirm a narrower period beyond the supplied 1953 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, looking across open water and shoreline from a moving or handheld position rather than presenting a formal scenic composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include deep blue water, a distant wooded shoreline, pale sky, grassy foreground, dark film-frame borders, and a diagonal dark shape in the last view.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, color shift toward blue and violet, exposure variation, gate edges, and dust marks that give the footage physical archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, reflective transition, rural Wisconsin cutaway, or memory beat before or after family footage from the same reel.
Historical context: The scene suggests leisure or travel filming around a wooded body of water near Baraboo, Wisconsin, without enough visual evidence to identify the exact river, lake, or vantage point.
Research note: People are flagged in the clip metadata, so likeness review may be needed even though these stills mainly show landscape; copyright and location/property issues should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1953 8mm Wisconsin lake view, Baraboo river shoreline home movie, 1950s rural water landscape, and vintage wooded shoreline footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Baraboo or Wisconsin footage from 1953, then with broader 1950s lake, river, countryside, or family-travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Baraboo, Wisconsin home-movie frame showing blue water, a tree-lined far shore, pale sky, and dark 8mm frame edges. — A quiet view across blue water toward a wooded shoreline.

1953 Baraboo, Wisconsin frame with open blue water, a distant treeline, pale sky, and visible 8mm gate edges. — Open water fills the frame below a distant line of trees.

1953 Baraboo, Wisconsin frame showing grassy land near water, a dark wooded horizon, pale sky, and heavy 8mm border shadow. — The camera shifts to include grass beside the water and the low wooded horizon.

1953 Baraboo, Wisconsin frame with grass near the water, a distant wooded bank, pale sky, and a diagonal dark obstruction at the top. — A darker foreground shape crosses the view as the shoreline and water remain visible.

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