Illinois USA-1962: Houseboat Moored At Lakeside Dock

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationIllinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 Illinois

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Houseboat Moored At Lakeside Dock — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a white and blue houseboat moored at a lakeside dock in Illinois. The boat, with its distinctive rounded windows and covered deck, sits calmly on the water, surrounded by lush green trees and a rustic cabin. The final frame shifts to a wide view of the lake, showing the boat moving away into the distance under an overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and natural lighting, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American lakeside vacation.

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: 123715717

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 2325 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: glenn t evans
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: moline illinois
Date: 1962 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: Illinois, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Fits documentary or educational requests for mid-century American lakeside leisure; useful for 1960s Midwest vacation or inland waterways sequences.
Period detail: The houseboat's rounded porthole windows, blue canvas canopy, and tire bumpers are consistent with early-1960s recreational watercraft design; summer foliage suggests warm-season filming.
Home-movie behavior: Appears shot from another boat or dock, recording a family's houseboat as a point-of-pride subject — typical home-movie vacation-property documentation with no staged action.
What appears in frame: White-and-blue houseboat with porthole windows, blue canopy roof, tire dock bumpers, brick lakeside cottage, dense deciduous tree canopy, calm green water, wake close-up, and wide open-lake view.
Film character: 8mm color stock shows mild warm-green fading, moderate grain in shadowed areas, and slightly unstable framing consistent with handheld operation from a moving boat.
Edit role: Works as an establishing insert for a 1960s summer sequence, a cutaway during narration about American leisure or inland waterways, or a memory-beat opener in a personal documentary.
Historical context: Houseboats on Midwest lakes were a growing leisure trend through the late 1950s and 1960s; the brick cottage and dock suggest an established private lakeside community.
Research note: No faces visible in any frame; the houseboat and lakeside cottage are private property requiring producer review; no logos legible at this resolution; copyright remains with the original filmmaker's estate.
Research search match: Researchers may search '1960s houseboat Illinois lake', 'mid-century lakeside vacation 8mm', or 'vintage Midwest inland waterway home movie'.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other Illinois 1962 reel clips; then 1960s Midwest lake or waterway footage; then thematically with mid-century American vacation or recreational boating clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

White and blue houseboat with rounded porthole windows moored at an Illinois lakeside dock, circa 1962; brick cottage visible in summer foliage behind. — Houseboat at dock, Illinois lake, 1962.

Second view of Illinois houseboat and dock, circa 1962, showing blue canopy and porthole windows with lakeside cottage and treeline behind. — Houseboat and lakeside cottage, Illinois, 1962.

Low-angle close-up of disturbed lake water surface shot from a moving watercraft, Illinois lake, circa 1962. — Lake water surface from moving boat, 1962.

Wide shot of open Illinois lake under overcast sky, circa 1962, with distant flat treeline and partial white boat hull in foreground. — Open lake under overcast sky, Illinois, 1962.

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