Wisconsin-1958: A Lakeside Community At Dusk With Houses And A Glowing Sign

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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A Lakeside Community At Dusk With Houses And A Glowing Sign — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a quiet Wisconsin community at dusk. The first frames show a small roadside building with a glowing sign and a purple house under a darkening sky, with a person walking on the sidewalk. The scene transitions to a wide view of a calm lake bordered by trees and distant hills under a cloudy sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, intimate feel, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127715888

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.

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: Yes
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 editors needing a brief lakeside community exterior, dusk cutaway, or small-town establishing insert.
Period detail: The roadside building, simple sign, residential facade, and quiet paved street may show mid-century small-town visual details, supported by the 1958 reel metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observer's viewpoint, catching a pedestrian and then shifting to the lake as a casual home-movie record of place.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a glowing roadside sign, a small building, a purple-toned house, a pedestrian, a paved street, trees, lake water, distant hills, and cloud cover.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows dense grain, blue-purple color shift, soft focus, variable exposure, and contact-sheet framing that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, a dusk transition, a lakeside cutaway, or a memory beat between community and landscape scenes.
Historical context: The footage places a small roadside community beside a calm lake, suggesting everyday residential and recreational geography without asserting a named town or landmark.
Research note: People and a sign are visible, so copyright, likeness, brand or sign identification, and location/property questions should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Wisconsin 8mm lake town, 1950s small-town street at dusk, vintage home movie lakeside community, and archival roadside sign footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Wisconsin exteriors, then broader 1950s lake, small-town, roadside, and dusk community footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a quiet street with a small roadside building, bright sign, purple-toned house, trees, and a pedestrian. — A small roadside building and glowing sign sit beside a quiet street as a pedestrian passes near a house.

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame of a roadside sign, small building, shaded house, street, trees, and a distant person on the sidewalk. — The same roadside sign and building remain in view, with the street and house darkened by dusk exposure.

1958 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing calm lake water, a wooded shoreline, distant hills, fields, and a layered cloudy sky. — The clip shifts from the street to a wide lakeside landscape under heavy cloud cover.

1958 Wisconsin lakeside frame with calm water, dark hills, green fields, a small pale structure, and textured cloud layers. — A quiet lake fills the foreground while fields, trees, hills, and a small structure sit across the water.

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