South Dakota-1954: Person Having A Good Time Water Skiing On The Lake On A

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Year1954
Decade1950s
LocationSouth Dakota, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1954 South Dakota

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Person Having A Good Time Water Skiing On The Lake On A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a serene lake surrounded by dense green trees under a soft sky. A person in a dark swimsuit water skis across the calm water, leaving a white wake behind. The footage has a nostalgic, slightly grainy quality with natural color fading typical of mid-century film. The scene evokes a peaceful summer day of outdoor recreation in the American Midwest.

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: 127608021

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1954 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: South Dakota, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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 archival requests needing home-movie lake recreation, water skiing, summer leisure, or Midwest outdoor cutaways.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century amateur 8mm vacation filming, with a distant water skier, small tow boat, wooded shoreline, and soft color typical of 1950s home movies.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual, unstaged view of a person water skiing on a lake, filmed from shore or a boat as a family recreation moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm lake, wooded hills, pale sky, a small tow boat, a distant water skier, white wake, and rounded 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, gate shadowing, and a handheld 8mm contact-print feel that supports its home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, summer memory beat, recreation cutaway, or transition into a sequence about mid-century leisure and lake vacations.
Historical context: The scene documents recreational water skiing in a rural lake setting, showing outdoor leisure rather than a formal sporting event or identifiable public gathering.
Research note: A person is visible at distance, so likeness review may be needed even though faces, logos, brands, private property, and audible music are not apparent.
Research search match: Searches for 1954 South Dakota 8mm lake footage, vintage water skiing home movie, 1950s summer recreation, wooded lake shoreline, and amateur vacation film may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other South Dakota 1954 lake material, then broader 1950s water sports and summer recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 South Dakota 8mm frame showing a calm lake below wooded hills, with no clear person visible in this moment. — A quiet lake and tree-covered hillside establish the setting before the water skier enters view.

1954 South Dakota home-movie frame with a distant person water skiing across a lake, leaving a white wake near the wooded shoreline. — A distant water skier moves across the lake with forested hills in the background.

1954 South Dakota 8mm frame showing a small tow boat and distant water skier on a lake bordered by dense trees and hills. — The tow boat and skier appear near the edge of the frame beneath a tree-covered hillside.

1954 South Dakota home-movie frame with a small white boat towing a distant water skier across a wooded lake setting. — A small boat pulls the skier across the water as the wooded shoreline fills the background.

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