Wisconsin-1958: Man Water Skiing on Lake with Hands Raised

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Man Water Skiing on Lake with Hands Raised — Clip Details

A man water skis across a calm lake in this 1958 vintage 8mm home movie clip. Shot through a window frame, the footage captures the skier gliding on the water, holding his hands up in joy as he cuts through the waves. The shoreline is lined with dense trees and a grassy bank, with a few distant houses visible. The film shows classic Super 8 grain, faded colors, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic summer day. The skier wears a dark swimsuit and maintains balance on the skis, creating a trail of white water behind him.

Licensing & Technical Details

Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127714978

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 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: Useful for 1950s U.S. leisure, lake recreation, water-sports, and summer-vacation sequences needing authentic home-movie texture.
Period detail: The 1958 Wisconsin metadata is supported, while visible clues are limited to small water skis, dark swimwear, a calm lake, and wooded shoreline recreation.
Home-movie behavior: The unstaged value is a distant skier raising his arms in delight while a home-movie camera watches from behind a window frame.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a water skier, lake surface, wake, dark window mullions, wooded shoreline, grassy banks, distant houses, and low hills.
Film character: The clip has faded color, soft focus, visible grain, slight motion blur, and exposure shifts consistent with scanned small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, memory beat, recreation cutaway, or transition in a sequence about postwar family travel and lake vacations.
Historical context: The footage reflects mid-century private leisure on an inland Wisconsin lake without documenting a named resort, competition, or public event.
Research note: A person is visible at distance, so likeness review may still apply; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from privacy or property review.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 Wisconsin lake home movie, vintage 8mm water skiing, 1950s summer recreation, and man water skiing on lake.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Wisconsin 1958 lake footage, then broader 1950s family vacation and water-sports material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame of a distant man water skiing across a calm lake behind dark window framing. — A water skier moves across the lake with trees and shoreline behind him.

A distant water skier glides near the right edge of a Wisconsin lake scene, with wooded banks and houses beyond. — The skier continues across the lake, leaving a pale wake across the water.

The skier leans back while crossing the lake, with low shoreline and distant structures softened by 8mm film grain. — A skier leans into the pull as bright wake spreads across the lake surface.

Near the end of the shot, the skier moves out of frame across open lake water with low wooded hills in the distance. — The skier reaches the edge of the frame as the wake trails across the open water.

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