Illinois USA-1962: Rolling Hills and Fields with Construction Activity

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

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Rolling Hills and Fields with Construction Activity — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a rural Illinois landscape with rolling hills and open fields. A small white trailer sits on a cleared, disturbed patch of land where a crane operates, suggesting early construction or land development. The footage shows natural scenery contrasted with human intervention, with trees dotting the hillsides under a pale sky. The final frame reveals the film's physical characteristics, including sprocket holes and grain, emphasizing its authentic Super 8 origin. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American countryside life and change.

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: 123716941

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: Suits documentary requests for early 1960s American rural land development; useful for mid-century Midwest construction history, landscape-transformation narratives, or infrastructure expansion sequences.
Period detail: A small white rectangular site trailer and what appears to be a crane or excavator arm on a graded hillside are consistent with early-1960s rural construction; the 1962 date is metadata-supported.
Home-movie behavior: Unstaged documentary impulse: the filmmaker paused to record nearby land being graded and developed, preserving an unscripted moment of mid-century rural change.
What appears in frame: Graded hillside with exposed brown earth, small white rectangular site trailer, crane or excavator arm on ridge, scattered deciduous trees, green pasture foreground, pale overcast sky, 8mm gate vignetting.
Film character: 8mm gate vignetting creates rounded-corner framing; color emulsion shows a warm cast and fine mid-tone grain; two end frames are blank or near-overexposed, indicating reel end or a spliced gap.
Edit role: Works as a landscape cutaway or era-establishing insert in a rural-development or Midwest history sequence; the blank end frames offer a natural wipe point for editors.
Historical context: Rural Illinois in the early 1960s saw substantial road, utility, and residential construction; the visible earthwork and site trailer may reflect that wave of post-war land development.
Research note: No identifiable people, faces, or branded signage are visible; the white structure appears to be a generic site trailer; no audible music; standard editorial review is advised before licensing.
Research search match: Researchers may search for 1960s rural construction, Illinois farmland development, vintage earthwork footage, or mid-century Midwest landscape 8mm home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same reel or Illinois location, then with 1960s American rural development footage, then with land-transformation or Midwest landscape themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Rural Illinois landscape circa 1962, showing exposed earthwork on a hillside, white construction trailer, and what appears to be a crane arm, framed by 8mm gate vignetting. — Earthwork and site trailer on an Illinois hillside, 1962.

Continuation of 1962 Illinois rural development scene; white site trailer and crane arm on bare earthwork hillside, trees along ridge. — Rural development site, Illinois, 1962, second view of graded hillside.

Clear or blank 8mm film frame showing emulsion grain and dust particles; likely a gap between shots or reel end. — Blank film frame, likely a reel gap or end of shot.

Severely overexposed or end-of-reel 8mm frame with a faint horizon line at the lower edge and near-white field throughout. — Overexposed film frame with faint horizon, likely reel end.

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