Wisconsin-1958: Man Water Skiing on Lake

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Man Water Skiing on Lake — Clip Details

A man water skis across a lake in this vintage 8mm home movie from Wisconsin, 1958. Shot from a moving boat, the footage captures the skier in a dark swimsuit and life vest, gliding over the water with a rope trailing behind. The scene is bathed in the warm, saturated colors typical of 1950s film stock, with visible grain and slight motion blur. Trees line the distant shore under a bright sky, evoking a classic summer recreation moment from mid-century America.

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: 127715266

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: This 1958 Wisconsin 8mm clip suits archival requests for mid-century American lake recreation, water skiing, summer leisure, or boating-perspective sports inserts.
Period detail: The footage shows 1950s color home-movie texture, a simple tow rope, lake setting, and recreational water-ski gear consistent with the supplied 1958 Wisconsin metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera rides in the towing boat, giving an unstaged family-film view of a skier keeping balance across the wake rather than a formal sports demonstration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man on water skis, tow rope, boat wake, lake surface, water spray, dark swimsuit or vest, distant wooded shoreline, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has saturated blue water, coarse grain, soft focus, handheld boat movement, motion blur, and uneven exposure that preserve the physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short summer memory beat, a recreational sports cutaway, a transition into lake life, or an insert for mid-century vacation storytelling.
Historical context: The clip documents ordinary postwar-era leisure on a Wisconsin lake, showing water skiing as a casual social activity filmed from within the boating group.
Research note: A person is visible and may require likeness review; no logos, children, audible music, or clear private property are visible, while copyright and release status remain separate checks.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 Wisconsin water skiing 8mm, vintage lake recreation home movie, mid-century boating footage, and man skiing behind boat.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1958 Wisconsin lake scenes, and then broader mid-century American boating, swimming, or summer vacation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In this 1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame, a man water skis across a lake behind the filming boat, with spray, tow rope, and trees in the distance. — A skier rides behind the boat as the tow rope cuts across the lake surface.

A 1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame shows the skier farther right on the lake, with the tow rope, wake, and blue water dominating the view. — The skier continues across the wake with spray trailing behind him.

The 1958 Wisconsin lake footage shows the man water skiing closer to frame center, leaning over choppy water with spray behind him. — The skier leans over the water as the boat pulls him along the lake.

A final 1958 Wisconsin frame shows the skier pulled across the lake, partly softened by motion blur, with rope, spray, and shoreline visible. — The skier passes through spray while the tow rope leads back toward the camera boat.

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