Wisconsin-1957: View Of Blue Water Waves And Grey Hill On A Clear Sunny Day

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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View Of Blue Water Waves And Grey Hill On A Clear Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside view from a moving boat. The camera pans across choppy blue water with small waves, revealing a distant shoreline with scattered houses and bare trees. A grey hill rises in the background under a clear, bright sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, with dark frame borders framing the scene. This authentic slice of Americana offers nostalgic, archival footage ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or retro-themed content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127458280

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 1219 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: oke lake,cottage,ice fishing,swimming
Reel-level year note: 1957
Reel-level location note: wisconsin
Date: 1957 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: 1950s Wisconsin 8mm lake footage suited for documentary inserts, regional history, travel memory sequences, or establishing shots of midcentury outdoor leisure.
Period detail: The visible period detail is limited to color 8mm home-movie texture, a low shoreline with scattered houses, bare trees, and undeveloped wooded hills in the distance.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged passenger viewpoint from a moving boat, with the camera watching waves and shoreline rather than arranging a formal scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include choppy blue lake water, small whitecaps, distant shoreline houses, leafless trees, wooded hills, pale sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows saturated blue water, soft focus, gate borders, mild exposure variation, and handheld motion consistent with midcentury 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a lakeside establishing insert, a travel transition, a quiet memory beat, or a cutaway between family-vacation scenes.
Historical context: The scene documents a midcentury recreational lake view in Wisconsin, emphasizing open water and shoreline settlement without showing identifiable people or events.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable signs are visible, but copyright status and any property-related uses should still be reviewed for the intended production context.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1950s Wisconsin lake 8mm footage, vintage home movie boat view, choppy blue water shoreline, and midcentury lake vacation cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1957 Wisconsin lake material, then broader vintage boat, water, shoreline, and vacation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing blue lake waves, distant shoreline houses, bare trees, and dark film borders. — Choppy lake water seen from a moving boat, with a low shoreline in the distance.

1957 Wisconsin home-movie frame with rippled blue water, low distant shore, small houses, and bare trees. — The camera faces across rippled water toward a settled shoreline.

1957 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing open lake water, a wooded hill, and a soft distant shoreline. — Open water fills the foreground as wooded hills rise beyond the far shore.

1957 Wisconsin home-movie frame with choppy lake water, distant wooded hills, and bright sky. — A broad view of wind-ruffled lake water with hills along the horizon.

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