Wisconsin-1958: Man Water Skiing Behind Boat

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Man Water Skiing Behind Boat — Clip Details

A man water skis behind a boat on a lake in this 1958 vintage 8mm home movie. Shot from a moving boat, the footage captures the skier in a life vest and dark swim trunks, holding a rope and gliding across the water with a tree-lined shore in the background. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film evokes classic mid-century Americana, with a small boat visible in the distance. This authentic slice of 1950s leisure time offers nostalgic, archival footage perfect for documentaries, retro-themed projects, or historical content.

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: 127715204

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: Useful for 1950s Wisconsin leisure, water-sport, and family recreation requests needing authentic home-movie lake footage.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century lake recreation through the 8mm color look, simple swimwear, tow rope, and small pleasure-boat vantage point.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has unstaged home-movie value as the camera follows a skier from a moving boat during an informal outing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a water skier, tow rope, lake surface, boat wake, distant tree-lined shore, and a small dock or boat near shore.
Film character: The scan carries grain, soft focus, color fading, gate edges, and handheld movement typical of small-gauge home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, memory beat, recreation cutaway, or transition into a summer-lake sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects personal leisure on a Wisconsin lake in 1958 without identifying the participants or exact lake.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from depicted-person rights.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Wisconsin 8mm water skiing, vintage lake recreation, home movie boat tow rope, and 1950s summer sports footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Wisconsin lake footage, then broader 1950s boating and water-sport scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame of a man water skiing behind a boat on a lake with a tree-lined shore in the distance. — A water skier rides behind the filming boat as the tow rope cuts across the lake surface.

The skier remains upright behind the boat, holding the rope as the lake and distant Wisconsin shoreline fill the frame. — The skier glides over rippled water with the tow line stretching toward the camera.

From the moving boat, the 1958 Wisconsin footage shows the skier off to the right with shoreline trees and small lakeside structures in view. — The camera angle shifts as the skier moves toward the right side of the lake view.

The skier continues upright behind the boat in grainy 8mm footage, with lake wake and a wooded Wisconsin shore behind him. — The skier rides through the wake as the home-movie camera keeps him near the right edge of frame.

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