Wisconsin-1958: Scenic View Of A Lake By A Forested Area

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Scenic View Of A Lake By A Forested Area — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside landscape in Wisconsin. The view unfolds across a calm blue lake, with a dense forested shoreline and rolling hills under a partly cloudy sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American summer. The camera appears to pan slowly, offering a tranquil, observational perspective of nature. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about 1950s Americana.

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: 127715928

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports requests for 1950s Wisconsin home-movie landscape footage for documentary, museum, educational, or period nature cutaway use.
Period detail: The scene may show a mid-century leisure or travel view, with no visible buildings, vehicles, clothing, signage, or people to provide more specific era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the quiet, unstaged home-movie observation of water, wooded shoreline, and low hills from a stationary or gently moving viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue lake, distant forested shoreline, low rolling hills, clouded sky, shoreline grasses, soft horizon, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift toward blue and green, uneven exposure, and frame-edge vignetting consistent with home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm landscape insert, geographic transition, memory beat, or establishing cutaway for Wisconsin travel or lake-country sequences.
Historical context: The clip records a non-urban lake landscape in Wisconsin, useful as visual context for mid-century outdoor travel or family-recorded scenery without broader social claims.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any location-specific reuse concerns separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 Wisconsin lake footage, 8mm home movie lake view, 1950s forest shoreline, vintage Midwest nature scene, and archival lakeside cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Wisconsin footage, then broader 1950s home-movie landscapes of lakes, forests, and travel views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Wisconsin home-movie frame showing a blue lake, dark forested shoreline, low hills, and a cloudy sky. — A lake stretches toward a wooded hillside beneath layered clouds.

1958 Wisconsin lake view with rippled blue water, green shoreline, low hills, and bright cloud cover. — Forested shoreline and low hills sit beyond the lake under a partly bright sky.

1958 Wisconsin home-movie view across a blue lake toward a tree-lined shore and low dark hill. — The frame holds a broad expanse of lake with trees and hills on the far bank.

1958 Wisconsin frame showing open lake water, a dark forested horizon, and scattered clouds overhead. — Open water fills the foreground with a dark wooded horizon beyond it.

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