Wisconsin-1953: Rowboats at Pier in Lakeside Park

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Wisconsin

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Rowboats at Pier in Lakeside Park — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside park in Wisconsin. The footage, viewed through a natural frame of tree trunks, shows several wooden rowboats docked at a small pier, surrounded by lush green trees, grass, and bushes. The camera pans slowly across the tranquil water, revealing a rustic wooden structure in the background and the gentle sway of leaves in the breeze. The warm, slightly faded colors and soft focus evoke a nostalgic, peaceful summer day.

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: 127572645

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 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: 1950s Wisconsin home-movie lakeside park footage for documentary inserts, regional memory sequences, or quiet recreational landscape cutaways.
Period detail: The scene may show mid-century wooden rowboats, a simple pier, mature shade trees, and a rustic lakeside structure visible in soft 8mm color.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged visitor viewpoint, looking through tree trunks toward boats and open water during a slow, observational pan.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tree trunks, leafy branches, docked wooden rowboats, a small pier, grass, lake water, shoreline vegetation, and a rustic building.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, modest grain, faded color, and handheld framing that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm establishing insert, a memory beat, a transition into lake recreation, or a cutaway for Wisconsin outdoor life.
Historical context: The footage documents a quiet lakeside public or recreational setting, showing leisure infrastructure and shaded shoreline scenery without visible people.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, and any property questions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Search match for 1953 Wisconsin 8mm lake park, vintage rowboats at pier, 1950s home movie shoreline, and archival wooded lake scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Wisconsin scenes, then other 1953 regional lake footage, then broader 1950s parks, boating, and summer landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Wisconsin 8mm frame of a shaded lakeside park, with wooden rowboats by the shore and a small rustic structure beyond the trees. — Tree trunks frame docked rowboats and a grassy lakeside area.

1953 Wisconsin home-movie view across tree trunks toward a lakeside pier, rowboats, and shaded shoreline vegetation. — A slow pan passes trees, rowboats, and a small pier at the lake edge.

1953 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing the lake opening through shaded trees, with shoreline vegetation and rowboats near a dock. — The camera opens toward brighter lake water between foreground trees.

1953 Wisconsin home-movie view of bright lake water framed by dark tree trunks and leafy branches, with a wooded shoreline at right. — Tree trunks and leaves frame a bright view across the lake.

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