Wisconsin-1958: Barge On Turbulent Blue Water

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Barge On Turbulent Blue Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a large barge or ferry navigating turbulent blue waters near a tree-lined shore. The footage, likely filmed from another vessel, shows the barge moving across the frame under a cloudy sky, with dark silhouettes of trees and distant hills in the background. The image exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a soft focus, characteristic of amateur 1950s home movies. The scene evokes a sense of mid-century Americana and maritime travel.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127715828

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Wisconsin home-movie footage for productions needing a brief maritime travel insert, ferry or barge cutaway, or lakeside transportation atmosphere.
Period detail: The small vessel, dock-like structure, tree-lined shore, and color 8mm look may show mid-century recreational or working water travel without identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint appears to come from another moving boat, giving the scene an unstaged passenger perspective on a vessel passing across rough blue water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include choppy blue water, a light-colored barge or ferry, upright posts or masts, a dark tree line, cloudy sky, and rounded film-gate edges.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, blue color bias, uneven exposure, and handheld framing consistent with amateur 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transition, travel insert, or memory beat in a sequence about Wisconsin waterways or mid-century boating.
Historical context: The scene places a small working or passenger vessel against wooded shoreline, suggesting everyday inland water movement rather than a staged event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but vessel identity, property context, and underlying copyright should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1958 Wisconsin 8mm ferry footage, vintage home movie barge on lake, choppy water boat cutaway, and mid-century inland water travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wisconsin 1958 waterfront material, then broader 1950s boating, ferry, and lake-travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a light-colored barge or ferry crossing rough blue water below a dark wooded shoreline. — A barge or ferry passes near the shore across turbulent blue water.

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame of a barge or ferry viewed from the water, with wooded shore silhouetted behind it. — The vessel remains centered against a dark shoreline and cloudy sky.

1958 Wisconsin 8mm still with a small ferry or barge moving across choppy water, seen through soft handheld framing. — A soft, grainy view shows the vessel crossing in front of the wooded bank.

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame showing a distant barge or ferry on turbulent blue water beneath a silhouetted tree line. — The vessel appears at mid-distance as waves fill the foreground.

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