Wisconsin-1958: Water Skiing On A Sunny Lake Day

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Water Skiing On A Sunny Lake Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sunny day of water sports on a Wisconsin lake. A small motorboat speeds across the water, leaving a white wake, as a person water skis behind it. The scene unfolds through a dark frame border, typical of old home movie projections, with a distant tree-lined shore under a bright sky. The footage shows natural film grain and slight color fading, evoking a nostalgic, classic American summer recreation.

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: 127715005

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: Useful for 1950s American summer recreation sequences needing Wisconsin lake water-skiing, leisure travel, or home-movie sports atmosphere.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage and small open motorboat may show mid-century recreational boating and water-skiing on a rural Wisconsin lake.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from shore or a fixed vantage point as the boat and skier pass, giving the clip an unstaged family-outing perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a motorboat, a water skier, white wake, broad lake surface, distant tree-lined shore, low hills, bright sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, exposure variation, and projection-like borders give the clip a clear 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, summer memory beat, recreational insert, or transition into a broader lake-vacation sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects casual postwar-era lake recreation and family filming practices without identifying the people, lake, or exact shoreline.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so copyright, likeness, and contextual use should be reviewed even though no logos or private property are apparent.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Wisconsin 8mm water skiing, vintage lake recreation, home movie motorboat, and mid-century summer sports footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Wisconsin 1958 lake scenes, then broader vintage boating or water-skiing material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a small motorboat moving across a lake near a tree-lined shore. — A motorboat speeds across the lake beneath a bright sky.

1958 Wisconsin lake scene with a motorboat pulling a distant water skier across the frame. — The boat pulls a skier over the lake, leaving a white wake.

Soft 8mm frame of a Wisconsin water-skiing pass, with boat and skier blurred by motion. — Motion blur follows the boat and skier as they pass the camera.

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a boat and skier farther from the camera on a sunny lake. — The skier trails behind the boat as both move toward the distant shoreline.

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