Wisconsin-1958: Person in Yellow Shirt Water Skiing on Lake

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Person in Yellow Shirt Water Skiing on Lake — Clip Details

A person in a yellow shirt and black shorts water skis across a lake in this 1958 Wisconsin home movie. Shot on 8mm film, the clip captures the skier gliding over blue water with a rope trailing behind, surrounded by tree-lined shores and a few distant houses under a partly cloudy sky. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame borders of vintage Super 8 home movies, evoking a nostalgic mid-century 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: 127715249

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 leisure, summer recreation, lake sports, and Wisconsin home-movie sequences needing authentic water-skiing footage.
Period detail: The color 8mm look, swimsuit-style shorts, tow rope, wooden shoreline homes, and lake recreation may show mid-century vacation culture in Wisconsin.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged family-film perspective, following a skier from a moving boat as they cross the wake and continue over open water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a water skier, tow rope, blue lake surface, boat wake, tree-lined shore, distant lakeside houses, cloudy sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, handheld framing, and dark contact-sheet borders give the footage a clear physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, vacation-memory beat, sports cutaway, or transition within a mid-century summer recreation sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents lake-based leisure and amateur water sports as seen through a private home-movie camera, without identifying the people or property shown.
Research note: A visible person and distant private-looking shoreline structures suggest likeness and property review may be needed separately from copyright assessment.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Wisconsin water skiing, 1950s lake recreation, 8mm home movie sports footage, vintage summer vacation, and mid-century boating scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1958 Wisconsin lake scenes, then broader 1950s recreation, boating, and water-sports clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame showing a water skier in a yellow top and dark shorts moving across a lake near distant shore houses. — A water skier glides toward the camera across the lake, with shoreline homes in the background.

1958 Wisconsin lake footage shows the skier continuing across blue water, with a tow rope trailing back toward the camera position. — The skier moves across open water as the tow rope stretches back through the frame.

A 1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame captures the skier cutting across the wake, with water spray, tow rope, and lakeside buildings visible. — The skier cuts across the boat wake, throwing spray over the blue lake surface.

The skier leans through a turn on the Wisconsin lake, with a broad spray, tow rope, wake lines, and wooded shoreline behind. — A turn across the wake sends spray outward as the skier remains upright behind the boat.

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