Wisconsin-1953: A Family On A Lake Taking In The Great Summer Day

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Wisconsin

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A Family On A Lake Taking In The Great Summer Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a serene summer day at a lake in Wisconsin. The footage shows a calm body of water with a tree-lined shore, a small white house nestled among the trees, and a person in a patterned headscarf and light-colored clothing seen from behind, likely on a boat. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, natural color shifts with a purple tint on the water, and visible grain. The camera pans slowly across the landscape, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American leisure and family life.

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: 127571850

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 1212 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1953-1954
Reel-level location note: wisconsin
Date: 1953 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 home-movie requests needing lakeside leisure, boating perspective, or quiet summer landscape cutaways.
Period detail: The 1953 8mm footage may show mid-century lake recreation through handheld color views of shoreline cottages, trees, open water, and a passenger on a boat.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged family-travel feel, with the camera drifting across the lake and briefly catching a seated passenger from behind.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled lake water, wooded shoreline, small light-colored houses, sky, boat edge, a seated person in a patterned headscarf, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The scan carries soft 8mm focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, handheld framing, and color shift that gives the water a purple-blue cast.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, lake-location insert, travel transition, or atmospheric cutaway in a mid-century family sequence.
Historical context: The footage reflects ordinary warm-weather recreation around a Wisconsin lake without supporting claims about a named lake, town, family, or event.
Research note: A person is visible from behind and shoreline homes appear in the distance, so likeness and property context should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1953 Wisconsin lake home movie, 1950s 8mm boating footage, vintage family lake vacation, and tree-lined shoreline cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1953 Wisconsin lake footage, then broader 1950s family boating or summer recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a wooded lakeshore and small house across rippled lake water. — A distant house sits among trees on the opposite lakeshore.

1953 Wisconsin lake view with rippled water, dense shoreline trees, and distant houses partly obscured by foliage. — The camera looks across the lake toward trees and scattered shoreline homes.

1953 Wisconsin 8mm frame of a quiet lake surface and wooded shoreline with a small distant house. — A wooded shore and small lakeside house pass through the handheld frame.

1953 Wisconsin boating view with a seated passenger in a patterned headscarf facing the lake and distant tree-lined shore. — A boat passenger faces the water as the shoreline recedes in the background.

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