Wisconsin-1957: View Of Grey Wooden Bridge And People In Small Motorboat On A

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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View Of Grey Wooden Bridge And People In Small Motorboat... — Clip Details

WISCONSIN-1957: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a serene lakeside scene. A small motorboat with two people glides across the water, framed by a natural shoreline with bare trees and distant hills. The footage transitions to a view of a grey wooden bridge over the river, with a white sign visible. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly faded quality, evoking a nostalgic 1950s American summer. This authentic archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, and nostalgic content.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127458380

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 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: Useful for 1950s Wisconsin lake recreation, rural road, and small-boat cutaways in documentary, museum, education, or period-memory edits.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century lakeside leisure through a small motorboat, simple wooden bridge, unpaved or lightly paved road, bare trees, and sparse shoreline development.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a casual visitor or family perspective, lingering on water, shoreline, bridge, and a passing small motorboat without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lake or river, small motorboat with two people, wooded shoreline, low hills, grey wooden bridge, roadside sign, and sunny winter or early spring light.
Film character: The 8mm color scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, blue-green color shift, and handheld framing that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, travel transition, lakeside memory beat, or cutaway between family, recreation, and rural Wisconsin scenes.
Historical context: The clip gives visual context for postwar American lake visits and local waterside roads, while the exact waterway, bridge, and sign text remain unidentified.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no brands are readable, and copyright status is separate from likeness or property review.
Research search match: Search matches include 1957 Wisconsin 8mm lake footage, 1950s small motorboat home movie, rural wooden bridge over water, and vintage American lakeside road scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel lakeside and road footage, then Wisconsin 1957 material, then broader 1950s boating, rural bridge, shoreline, and family-travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Wisconsin home-movie frame of two people in a small motorboat on open water, with bare trees and low hills in the distance. — A small motorboat moves across the lake, seen from the shoreline.

1957 Wisconsin lakeside view with rippled water, bare shoreline trees, and a low wooded hill under clear daylight. — The camera pans along the lake toward a wooded shoreline.

1957 Wisconsin frame showing a grey wooden bridge or roadside railing beside a lake or river, with trees and shoreline in the background. — A simple wooden bridge or railing borders the water near the road.

1957 Wisconsin home-movie view down a road over a grey wooden bridge, with water at both sides, trees, and an unreadable white sign. — The road leads across a low wooden bridge with water on either side.

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