Wisconsin-1958: Motorboat Pulling Person On Rope Across Lake

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Motorboat Pulling Person On Rope Across Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a motorboat pulling a person on a rope across a calm lake in Wisconsin. The boat, carrying at least two people, moves from left to right, leaving a wake as the rider glides behind. The scene unfolds under an overcast sky, with rolling hills and trees lining the distant shore. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic 1950s summer recreation. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical storytelling.

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: 127715049

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 Wisconsin lake recreation requests needing authentic home-movie boating, water-skiing, or summer leisure footage.
Period detail: The small motorboat, rope-towed rider, rural shoreline, and faded 8mm color may show mid-century family recreation on an inland Wisconsin lake.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged vacation-film viewpoint, watching a boat pull a distant rider across open water from shore or another lakeside position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a motorboat, a rope-towed rider, broad lake water, boat wake, low wooded shoreline, rolling hills, and an overcast sky.
Film character: The footage carries soft 8mm grain, slight blur, faded color, uneven exposure, and gate edges that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, summer-memory beat, recreation cutaway, or transition within a mid-century lake vacation sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents casual motorized water recreation in a rural lake setting without enough detail to identify individuals, property, or a precise shoreline.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still apply even though no logos, brands, or private property are apparent in these frames.
Research search match: Search matches include 1958 Wisconsin 8mm lake boating, vintage home movie water skiing, 1950s motorboat recreation, and rural summer lake footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1958 Wisconsin lake scenes, then broader mid-century boating or summer recreation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a small motorboat crossing calm lake water with a wooded, hilly shoreline in the distance. — A motorboat crosses the lake, leaving a long wake against a rural shoreline.

A small motorboat pulls a distant rider across a Wisconsin lake, with calm water, shoreline trees, and hills visible behind. — The boat and rope-towed rider move across open water near the far shore.

The motorboat and rope-towed rider continue across the lake in a faded 8mm home-movie view of rural Wisconsin recreation. — A distant rider follows the boat on a tow rope across calm lake water.

A small motorboat pulls a distant person on a rope across a Wisconsin lake, framed by dark film edges and a hilly shoreline. — The boat and rider pass through the frame with the shoreline stretching behind them.

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