California-1952: Person Water Skiing Behind Boat

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Person Water Skiing Behind Boat — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures serene views of a California shoreline from a moving boat. The footage shows a small powerboat speeding across calm blue waters, leaving a white wake behind. A person is briefly visible being towed, likely water skiing, though the action is partially obscured. The backdrop features a rugged, tree-covered mountain range under a hazy sky. The image exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, grainy texture, and a blue-tinted color palette. This archival clip evokes mid-century American leisure and coastal recreation.

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: 127545686

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 1234 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: miss universe
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1952 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: California, 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 California home-movie shoreline footage suited to documentary inserts about boating, coastal leisure, and mid-century water recreation.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1950s leisure boating from an 8mm camera, with open water, a low powerboat, and a rugged California shoreline rather than identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the passenger viewpoint from a moving boat, catching brief water-ski action and shoreline scenery without staged posing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm blue water, white boat wakes, a small speeding powerboat, a distant towed person, hazy mountain slopes, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The scan has soft focus, blue color bias, visible grain, dust marks, and slight exposure variation consistent with small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, transition, or memory beat for mid-century boating, vacation travel, or California coastal recreation.
Historical context: The footage reflects postwar leisure culture through a family-camera view of boating and water sports, without enough detail to identify the people or exact shoreline.
Research note: A person appears briefly and indistinctly, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are visible, and copyright clearance is separate from depicted-person rights.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1952 California 8mm boating, vintage home movie water skiing, mid-century shoreline from boat, and coastal recreation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with California 1952 travel material, and then with broader 1950s boating, shoreline, and water-sports clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 California home-movie view from the water toward a hazy mountainous shoreline, with small-gauge film edges visible. — Mountain shoreline across calm water from a moving boat.

A white wake trails across blue water with rugged California shoreline in the distance, filmed on soft 8mm home-movie stock. — Boat wake against a distant mountain shoreline.

A small powerboat speeds over calm water near a hazy California mountain shoreline, with wake visible in the foreground. — Powerboat crossing calm water near the shoreline.

Open water and rugged California shoreline with a small indistinct towed figure or object near the right edge, captured in 1952 home-movie footage. — Distant tow action near a rugged shoreline.

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