Illinois USA-1962: Construction Site and Sunset over Hillside

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

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Construction Site and Sunset over Hillside — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a rural Illinois landscape from a moving vehicle. The sequence begins with a hazy sunset or sunrise over a distant treeline, the sun a bright orb in a pale sky. As the camera moves forward, the view shifts to a hillside under construction, featuring a large crane, mounds of dirt, and scattered trees. The foreground shows a paved road and green fields, all framed by the characteristic dark borders of an 8mm film frame. The footage exhibits natural film grain and the soft, slightly faded color palette typical of mid-century home movies, evoking a sense of quiet Americana and mid-century development.

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: 123716724

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

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: Useful for 1960s Americana documentary sequences needing rural Midwest landscape or infrastructure development coverage shot on period 8mm stock.
Period detail: Faded color palette, visible grain, and 8mm frame vignetting are consistent with early-1960s consumer color stock; construction machinery may reflect mid-century civil infrastructure expansion.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from a moving vehicle, the camera captures an unplanned roadside glance at a construction site — the spontaneous record of something that caught a traveler's eye.
What appears in frame: Pale hazy sky with low sun orb, flat dark treeline, graded earthen embankment, construction crane boom, scattered mature trees, green roadside grass, paved road edge, dark 8mm film-frame borders.
Film character: Soft faded color with visible grain, low contrast in the hazy opening frame, and gentle motion blur from vehicle travel give the footage authentic mid-century home-movie texture.
Edit role: Works as an opening landscape cutaway or transitional insert establishing a rural Midwest setting before a 1960s development or infrastructure narrative.
Historical context: The visible earthwork and crane are consistent with large-scale highway and civil construction projects that reshaped rural America in the 1960s, though the specific project cannot be confirmed.
Research note: No identifiable faces, minors, or brand marks visible; the construction site may constitute private or public property — verify jurisdiction and project identity if depicting a named development.
Research search match: Researchers may query this as '1960s Illinois rural landscape 8mm,' 'Midwest construction site vintage home movie,' or 'mid-century road trip footage.'
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same 1962 Illinois reel, then with Midwest rural footage from the same decade, then with construction or infrastructure sequences from 1960s America.

Still Frames From This Clip

Low sun orb in a pale hazy sky above a distant flat treeline, captured on 8mm film in Illinois circa 1962, with characteristic dark frame vignetting. — Low sun over a flat rural horizon, Illinois, 1962.

Graded earthen embankment with construction crane at right, scattered trees, green grass and road edge visible, shot on 8mm film in Illinois circa 1962. — Hillside construction site with crane, rural Illinois, 1962.

Graded earthen mound with crane arm and mature trees, green fields and road edge in foreground, captured on 8mm film from a vehicle in rural Illinois circa 1962. — Construction earthworks and crane beside a rural road, Illinois, 1962.

Continuing shot of the graded hillside and crane from a vehicle, green roadside fields and paved road in foreground, 8mm footage from rural Illinois circa 1962. — Rural construction site with crane and hillside, Illinois, 1962.

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