Wisconsin-1971: Tugboat Stranded In Icy Waters Amid Snow And Bare Trees

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 Wisconsin

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Tugboat Stranded In Icy Waters Amid Snow And Bare Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a large white tugboat stranded in icy waters along a frozen riverbank in Wisconsin. The vessel is surrounded by snow and broken ice, with bare trees framing the scene in the foreground. The footage, viewed through a window with a twisted wire visible at the bottom, shows the boat from multiple angles as it appears to be stuck or moving slowly through the frozen channel. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film enhances the nostalgic, archival feel of this winter scene.

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: 125775263

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 1007 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1971
Reel-level location note: Wisconsin,Michigan
Date: 1971 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: 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 1970s Wisconsin winter archive requests needing home-movie footage of river ice, snowbound waterways, or a tugboat slowed by frozen conditions.
Period detail: The 1971 8mm source and color home-movie look support an early 1970s reading, while the visible clues are winter clothing-free landscape, bare trees, snow, and a working tugboat.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a private observer's viewpoint from behind a window or railing, suggesting an unstaged home-movie record of an unusual winter river scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white tugboat, broken river ice, snow-covered banks, bare trees, dark window or railing bars, and a distant shoreline.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, soft focus, faded winter color, exposure variation, and slight handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a winter cutaway, industrial waterway insert, transition into severe weather coverage, or quiet memory beat about frozen river life.
Historical context: The scene visually documents a working boat in icy inland waters, with snow and bare trees providing context for winter transport or river conditions without identifying a specific event.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable vessel names are visible, but copyright, vessel identity, and any location-specific property or access questions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Searches it may satisfy include 1971 Wisconsin tugboat in ice, 8mm frozen river footage, vintage winter waterway home movie, and snowbound boat archival clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other footage from the same reel, then with Wisconsin 1971 winter scenes, and then with broader frozen river, tugboat, or Great Lakes region material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a white tugboat in broken river ice, with snow, bare trees, and dark foreground bars. — A tugboat sits or moves slowly in an icy channel beside a snow-covered bank.

1971 Wisconsin winter frame with a tugboat facing forward in broken ice, framed by leafless trees and snow. — The tugboat is viewed head-on through bare branches along the icy riverbank.

1971 Wisconsin 8mm view of a tugboat in icy water, seen from an elevated interior or window-side vantage. — A frontal view emphasizes the vessel pressed into a channel of broken ice.

1971 Wisconsin winter home-movie frame showing the tugboat in broken ice behind tree branches and a dark foreground barrier. — The boat remains framed by bare trees and dark foreground bars as ice fills the river channel.

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