Wisconsin-1958: Man Water Skiing with White Wake

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Man Water Skiing with White Wake — Clip Details

A man in a dark swimsuit water skis across a lake in this 1958 8mm home movie from Wisconsin. Shot from a moving boat, the footage captures him gliding over the water, leaving a white wake behind. The scene is framed by a dark border, typical of vintage Super 8 film, with trees lining the distant shore under a bright sky. The grainy, slightly faded colors and analog quality evoke a nostalgic summer day of classic American leisure.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127715394

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 American leisure, lake recreation, water-skiing, and Wisconsin summer home-movie sequences in documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The 8mm color image, dark swimsuit, tow-rope action, and open lake setting support a late-1950s home-movie view of recreational water skiing.
Home-movie behavior: The camera follows from a moving boat as the skier stays upright, creating an unstaged family-film view of sport, balance, and summer recreation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man on water skis, tow wake, rippled lake water, a distant tree-lined shore, small shoreline structures, and rounded film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, faded color, slight exposure variation, and handheld boat movement that preserve its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for vintage summer, family vacation, lake sport, or midcentury outdoor leisure scenes.
Historical context: The clip reflects recreational lake culture and motorboat-towed water skiing as seen through a private Wisconsin home movie, without identifying the participants.
Research note: A person is visible at distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or clear private property are evident, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness review.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 Wisconsin 8mm water skiing, vintage lake recreation, midcentury summer home movie, and man water skiing on a lake.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Wisconsin or 1958 lake footage, then broader vintage water sports and summer vacation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1958 Wisconsin 8mm footage, a man water skis across open lake water with a white wake and distant trees behind him. — A water skier moves across the lake in a distant boat-shot view.

The skier continues across the Wisconsin lake, framed by rounded 8mm borders and rippled blue water. — The skier travels past the camera boat with spray rising beside him.

A man in a dark swimsuit skis toward the camera boat on a Wisconsin lake, with spray and a distant shoreline visible. — The water skier appears nearer to the camera as the wake spreads across the lake.

Near the end of the 1958 Wisconsin clip, the skier continues over choppy water with trees and small shoreline structures beyond. — The skier remains upright as the boat wake rolls across the foreground.

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