Wisconsin-1958: Water Skier Behind White Boat on Lake

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Water Skier Behind White Boat on Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sunny day on a Wisconsin lake. A white ski boat moves slowly across the water, pulling a person on water skis. The scene is framed by dark borders, showing natural film grain and slight color fading typical of Super 8 footage. Trees line the distant shore, and the sky is partly cloudy. The footage offers a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century recreational boating and water sports.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127714952

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 1211 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: family picnic,water skiing,lake wisconsin
Reel-level year note: 1958
Reel-level location note: wisconsin
Date: 1958 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1950s documentary or commercial requests for Midwestern lake recreation, small-boat leisure, and vintage water-skiing home-movie footage.
Period detail: The 8mm color look, modest ski boat, distant wooded shoreline, and water-skier may show late-1950s recreational boating in Wisconsin.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged family-observer quality, watching a boat and skier pass across the lake from shore or another stationary vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open lake water, a white ski boat, a towed water-skier, low wooded shoreline, distant hills, pale sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries soft 8mm grain, slight color fading, gate borders, minor dust marks, and steady but home-movie-style framing.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief insert, leisure cutaway, summer transition, or memory beat within a sequence about mid-century lake vacations.
Historical context: The scene reflects ordinary postwar leisure on an inland Wisconsin lake, with boating and water skiing presented as casual home-movie activity.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed even though no logos, music, children, or private property are apparent in the frames.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1958 Wisconsin lake water skiing, 1950s 8mm boating footage, vintage ski boat home movie, and Midwestern summer recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel lake material, then other Wisconsin 1958 outdoor footage, then broader 1950s boating and water-sport scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin lake scene with distant boat activity, wooded shore, pale sky, and dark 8mm frame borders. — A distant boat moves near the tree-lined shore on a sunny lake.

1958 Wisconsin lake view with a small boat far across the water, distant hills, and visible 8mm gate borders. — A small boat sits far out on the lake beneath a hazy sky.

Wide 1958 Wisconsin lake frame showing a distant boat, rippled water, low shoreline hills, and aged color 8mm texture. — The camera holds on the lake as a small boat appears near the horizon line.

1958 Wisconsin water-skiing scene with a white ski boat pulling a skier across open lake water, with hills in the distance. — A white ski boat tows a water-skier across the lake, leaving a low wake behind.

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