North Dakota-1953: A Woman Ice Skating On A Frozen Pond In A Red Coat

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationNorth Dakota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Woman Ice Skating On A Frozen Pond In A Red Coat — Clip Details

A woman in a red coat and dark pants ice skates across a frozen pond in North Dakota, 1953. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures her gliding and balancing on the ice with natural motion. The scene is bathed in a cool blue and purple hue, with warm golden tones in the distant background. The grainy texture and slight color distortion reflect the vintage Super 8 aesthetic. This authentic home movie moment evokes nostalgia and captures a quiet winter pastime.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127558779

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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: 1953 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: North Dakota, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s archival requests needing North Dakota winter recreation, amateur home-movie skating, or everyday leisure inserts for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The red coat, dark trousers, white skates, open rural pond, and 8mm color rendering support a mid-century home-movie winter setting, with 1953 North Dakota supplied by metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The woman appears to skate for the camera, balancing, gliding, and approaching in an informal home-movie moment rather than a staged sporting performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a red coat, dark pants, white ice skates, a frozen pond, distant brown grassland, blue ice, soft shadows, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm home-movie texture through visible grain, soft focus, color shift toward blue and purple, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a winter leisure cutaway, a memory beat, a transition into rural recreation, or a short insert showing informal skating in the 1950s.
Historical context: The footage shows everyday outdoor recreation on a frozen pond, offering visual context for cold-weather leisure and rural open-space settings without implying organized sport.
Research note: A person is visible and likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, while copyright and source permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1953 North Dakota 8mm home movie, woman ice skating on frozen pond, vintage winter recreation footage, and mid-century amateur skating scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1953 North Dakota winter footage, and finally with broader 1950s recreation or home-movie skating material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A woman in a red coat and dark pants faces the camera while ice skating on a frozen pond in North Dakota, 1953. — The skater faces the camera on the frozen pond, with open winter ground behind her.

Close framing shows the skater's red coat, dark pants, and white skates moving across blue-toned pond ice. — The camera catches the skater's lower body and white skates as she moves across the ice.

A skater moves across the frozen pond in a wide North Dakota home-movie view, with brown grassland beyond the ice. — The skater glides farther from the camera, framed by the pond and winter grassland.

A skater moves across blue-toned ice near the pond edge, with open North Dakota grassland in the background. — The skater continues across the frozen pond as the rural shoreline fills the background.

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