Illinois USA-1962: Sliding View Of The Countryside With A Couple Houses And

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

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Sliding View Of The Countryside With A Couple Houses And — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a sliding view of the Illinois countryside. The camera moves across a rural landscape featuring rolling fields, scattered trees, and a small white house. The footage shows a dirt path and a wooden fence, with a utility pole visible in later frames. The image has the characteristic grain and color palette of 1960s Super 8 film, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American rural life.

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: 123716810

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$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: Serves 1960s Midwest rural Americana documentary requests; useful as a transitional or establishing landscape shot for mid-century American history or pastoral nostalgia productions.
Period detail: 8mm grain, muted green-brown palette, and small white farm structures visible through the pan are consistent with the stated 1962 date and early-1960s amateur colour reversal stock.
Home-movie behavior: The continuous lateral pan and framing suggest the camera was held from a moving vehicle, capturing the passing countryside as a spontaneous personal record rather than a staged shot.
What appears in frame: Rolling graded dirt embankment, green hillside, scattered deciduous trees, small white farm structures, pale overcast sky, dirt path, wooden fence rail, and a utility pole in the final frame.
Film character: Heavy 8mm vignetting rounds the frame edges; the muted green-brown palette, visible grain, and slight colour fade are characteristic of 1960s amateur colour reversal stock.
Edit role: Functions as a landscape cutaway, a transitional pan between scenes, or a memory-beat establishing shot for rural Midwest narratives set in the early 1960s.
Historical context: The prominently graded dirt embankment may suggest road construction or land clearing typical of early-1960s rural Midwest infrastructure expansion, though this cannot be confirmed from the footage alone.
Research note: No people or faces visible; white structures appear to be distant farm outbuildings; no brand marks detected, but structure identification and any property clearance should be confirmed by a clearance professional.
Research search match: Researchers may query: 1960s rural Illinois landscape, Midwest countryside home movie, panning farm scenery, mid-century American rural, 8mm film pastoral.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same source reel; then with 1960s Illinois or Midwest rural footage; then with countryside driving-pan shots from the early 1960s.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm home movie frame circa 1962 showing a panning view of an Illinois rural hillside with a graded dirt slope and trees on the ridge. — Rural hillside with dirt embankment, Illinois, c.1962.

8mm home movie circa 1962, panning view of an Illinois rural landscape with a graded dirt slope and a white farm structure emerging at right. — Panning countryside view with white structure, Illinois, c.1962.

8mm home movie circa 1962 capturing an Illinois farmstead area with trees and two small white outbuildings visible through a panning shot. — Trees and white farm structures, rural Illinois, c.1962.

Final 8mm frame from a 1962 Illinois countryside pan, showing a utility pole, wooden fence rail, white house behind trees, and a dirt road curving through. — Utility pole, fence, and white house behind trees, Illinois, c.1962.

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