Illinois USA-1962: Trees And Shrubs Surrounding Home With Green Roof Visible

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

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Trees And Shrubs Surrounding Home With Green Roof Visible — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban scene in Illinois. A white house with a green roof is partially obscured by dense trees and shrubs, viewed through a natural frame. A red vehicle appears briefly on the right, parked on a gravel driveway. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and slight camera shake, evoking a nostalgic, everyday moment from the early 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123716280

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: Serves documentary and period commercial productions needing an early-1960s Midwestern suburban residential establishing shot without people.
Period detail: Warm 8mm color palette and a red vehicle partially visible at right are consistent with early-1960s dating; mature deciduous and conifer plantings frame a white house with a green peaked roof.
Home-movie behavior: The unhurried, near-static view — likely a family member composing the home in soft summer light — carries the quiet observational quality of an amateur home-movie record.
What appears in frame: Dense summer deciduous canopy, tall central conifer, white-painted house partially obscured, green triangular roof peak, red vehicle at right edge, pale driveway strip, green lawn, blue sky.
Film character: Warm, saturated 8mm color with visible grain and slightly contrasty highlights; the stable frame suggests a rested-camera or tripod shot, lending the footage a composed postcard quality.
Edit role: Works as a slow establishing shot or memory-sequence opener for 1960s suburban domestic narratives; the dense foliage framing also suits a cutaway or scene-transition beat.
Historical context: The dense plantings surrounding the home reflect the maturing postwar suburban landscape of the early 1960s Midwest, where lots developed in the late 1940s–50s had grown in substantially.
Research note: No identifiable people appear; the house exterior and the red vehicle at right may warrant property-rights consideration under Illinois law, though incidental exterior footage is common in archival licensing practice.
Research search match: 1960s Illinois suburban home exterior, early 1960s Midwest neighborhood 8mm, postwar American suburb summer, vintage residential street scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same reel for sequence continuity; then Illinois or Midwest 1960s residential footage; then other 8mm suburban exterior clips from the early 1960s.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm home movie, Illinois 1962: white house with green peaked roof framed by mature summer trees, red vehicle at right. — Illinois suburban home partially obscured by dense summer foliage, 1962.

8mm home movie, Illinois 1962: white gabled house behind mature summer trees, red vehicle at right; near-static composition. — Dense tree canopy frames a white house with green roof; red vehicle at right.

8mm home movie, Illinois 1962: mature tree canopy frames white house with green roof; red vehicle and driveway visible at right. — Suburban Illinois home framed by summer trees, red vehicle at right, 1962.

8mm home movie, Illinois 1962: white house with green peaked roof behind mature deciduous trees; red vehicle at right edge. — Mature trees surround a white house with green roof; 1962 Illinois.

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