Minnesota USA-1958: Motorized Boat on Lake with Two People

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Minnesota

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Motorized Boat on Lake with Two People — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a small motorized boat gliding across a calm lake in Minnesota. Two people are aboard, one steering while the other sits quietly, as the boat moves steadily from right to left. The scene is viewed through a window frame, with bare tree branches in the foreground and a distant shoreline under an overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and a muted blue-gray color palette, evoking a quiet, nostalgic mid-century American moment.

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: 124863750

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: 1958 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: Minnesota, 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: 1950s Minnesota home-movie lake footage for editors needing a quiet mid-century boating insert, seasonal travel cutaway, or domestic leisure reference.
Period detail: The small open motorboat, distant wooded shoreline, muted color, and bare branches may show a cool-weather lake outing in late-1950s Minnesota.
Home-movie behavior: The scene has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, watching two people pass across the water from behind a dark window or film-frame edge.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small motorboat, two seated people, calm lake water, bare foreground branches, a distant shoreline, overcast sky, and dark frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, gate marks, vertical scratches, slight blur, and blue-gray exposure shifts that give it physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, lake-life cutaway, travel transition, or atmospheric insert between family, recreation, or regional scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents everyday recreational boating on an inland Minnesota lake, with no visible signage or landmarks to identify the exact waterway.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos, music, or clearly identifiable private property are visible in the frames.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 8mm Minnesota lake boat, vintage home movie motorboat, two people on small boat, and mid-century lake recreation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1958 Minnesota lake scenes, then broader vintage boating or family recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Minnesota 8mm frame showing two people in a small motorboat crossing a calm lake beneath an overcast sky. — A small motorboat with two people moves across a quiet lake, partly obscured by branches and frame edges.

1958 Minnesota home-movie frame of a small boat with two distant occupants on a muted blue-gray lake. — The boat continues across the lake with two distant figures aboard and a wooded shoreline in the background.

Two people in a small motorboat pass across a Minnesota lake in a soft, scratched 1958 8mm frame. — The motorboat appears lower in the frame as it travels over calm water, with the shoreline faintly visible behind it.

1958 Minnesota 8mm frame showing a distant two-person boat leaving a faint wake across calm lake water. — The boat recedes toward the right side of the frame, leaving a faint wake against the blue-gray water.

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