Wisconsin-1958: Motorboat Pulling Water Skier on Lake

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Motorboat Pulling Water Skier on Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a classic summer scene on a Wisconsin lake. A motorboat speeds across the water, pulling a water skier who glides behind, leaving a trail of white waves. The skier, wearing dark swimwear, maintains balance as the boat cuts through the calm surface. In the background, a tree-lined shoreline and distant hills stretch under a bright sky. The footage shows natural film grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. This nostalgic clip evokes mid-century American outdoor recreation and leisure.

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: 127715021

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Wisconsin lake recreation footage suited for documentary or museum edits needing mid-century boating and water-skiing leisure scenes.
Period detail: The small motorboat, simple water-ski setup, dark swimwear, and 8mm color home-movie look may show late-1950s summer recreation.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged lakeside observer's view as the boat passes and the skier trails behind across open water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a motorboat, a water skier, wake lines, rippled lake surface, distant wooded shoreline, low hills, bright sky, and film frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve the home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, recreational cutaway, travel transition, or memory beat for summer vacation and outdoor sport sequences.
Historical context: The footage documents casual lake leisure and motorized recreation in a mid-century American home-movie context without identifying the people or exact lake.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from privacy or location review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Wisconsin 8mm water skiing, 1950s lake motorboat home movie, and vintage family vacation water sport footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other scenes from the same reel, then Wisconsin 1958 lake footage, then broader 1950s boating, vacation, and water-skiing material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame of a small motorboat pulling a water skier across a lake with wooded shoreline and low hills beyond. — A motorboat pulls a water skier across open lake water with shoreline and hills in the background.

The boat speeds across a Wisconsin lake in 1958 home-movie footage, towing a distant water skier through a white wake. — The boat continues across the lake as the skier follows along the tow line and wake.

A water skier in dark swimwear rides across the lake surface behind a motorboat wake in 1958 Wisconsin home-movie footage. — The skier rides upright across the wake, with the boat mostly out of frame to the left.

At the end of the 1958 Wisconsin lake shot, the skier moves out of frame while wake trails stretch across the water. — The skier reaches the edge of the frame as the wake spreads across the lake surface.

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