Wisconsin-1958: A Man Water Skis On Lake While Holding Tow Rope

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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A Man Water Skis On Lake While Holding Tow Rope — Clip Details

A man water skis across a calm lake in this 1958 vintage 8mm home movie from Wisconsin. Shot on Super 8 film, the footage captures the skier in a dark swimsuit and light-colored shirt, holding a tow rope as he glides over the water, leaving a white wake. The scene unfolds under overcast skies, with dense green trees lining the shoreline. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and soft focus are characteristic of mid-century home movie footage, evoking a nostalgic summer recreation. The camera remains steady, tracking the skier's movement across the lake.

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: 127715217

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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Wisconsin, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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 home-movie footage for productions needing summer lake recreation, water skiing, or mid-century leisure inserts.
Period detail: The soft color, 8mm frame edges, tow rope, short water skis, and simple swimwear may show a late-1950s amateur vacation record.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged boating-party viewpoint as the camera follows one man balancing on water skis behind an unseen tow boat.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a male water skier, tow rope, white spray, rippled lake surface, wooded shoreline, and dark rounded film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has grainy 8mm texture, soft focus, faded color, and slight exposure variation that read as original mid-century home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, recreation cutaway, lake-life transition, or nostalgic memory beat within a summer sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects postwar recreational lake activity in Wisconsin without identifying the lake, participants, boat, or shoreline property.
Research note: A person is visible at distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright clearance is separate from subject rights.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s Wisconsin water skiing, vintage 8mm lake recreation, home movie water skier, and mid-century summer sports footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Wisconsin lake scenes, then broader vintage water-sports and summer recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame showing a man water skiing across a lake behind an unseen boat, framed by trees on shore. — A man balances on water skis as the tow rope cuts across the lake surface.

The skier moves farther across the Wisconsin lake, leaving a small wake while dense trees line the far shore. — The tow rope leads back toward the camera as the skier continues across open water.

A man in light top and dark trunks rides water skis near the edge of the frame in this 1958 Wisconsin lake scene. — The skier stays upright as spray fans out beneath the skis near the wooded shoreline.

The skier continues across the lake at frame right, with the tow rope and wake visible in soft 8mm color. — A diagonal tow rope and narrow wake trace the skier's path across the water.

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