Illinois USA-1962: View Of Green Fields And Blue Sky On A Clear Sunny Day

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

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View Of Green Fields And Blue Sky On A Clear Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a serene view from a moving vehicle, looking out over open green fields under a vast, clear blue sky. The footage, framed by dark window edges, shows a rural Illinois landscape with distant buildings and a faint crane on the horizon. The classic Super 8 grain and color palette evoke a strong sense of mid-century Americana and nostalgic travel. This archival clip offers authentic period footage for documentaries, historical projects, or retro-themed content.

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: 123719293

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Serves 1960s American rural landscape requests for documentary and historical productions needing authentic roadside or travel footage from the Midwest.
Period detail: 8mm color palette, film grain, and a flat rural horizon with distant industrial silhouettes are consistent with the early 1960s American Midwest; the year 1962 is asserted in the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: A classic amateur travel shot through a car window — an unscripted, spontaneous record of passing countryside taken during a road journey.
What appears in frame: Dark vehicle-window vignette, flat open fields with low scrubby vegetation, wide clear blue sky, distant horizon with small structures, a tall vertical silhouette that may be a crane or tower, and small red roadside markers.
Film character: Saturated 8mm color with visible grain and mild halation in the blue sky gives the footage authentic mid-century home-movie warmth consistent with period reversal film stock.
Edit role: Works as a transitional insert or travel-montage cutaway establishing rural Midwest geography, useful between location scenes in a documentary or period drama.
Historical context: The flat open landscape and faint industrial silhouette on the horizon reflect the character of rural Illinois in the early 1960s, before significant suburban expansion along Midwest highways.
Research note: No identifiable people, faces, or branded signage are visible; structures on the horizon are too distant to identify; standard licensing review is recommended before broadcast use.
Research search match: Researchers may query for 1960s Midwest road trip footage, rural Illinois 8mm landscape film, or vintage American countryside travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same 1962 Illinois reel; then with rural American roadside footage from the 1960s; then with mid-century Midwest travel or open-landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm home movie frame, c.1962 Illinois — flat rural landscape shot from a moving vehicle window, open fields and blue sky with distant horizon structures. — Out-the-window view of rural Illinois farmland, 1962.

8mm home movie frame, c.1962 Illinois — moving vehicle window view of open fields with distant structures and a crane-like silhouette on the horizon. — Rural Illinois landscape with distant industrial silhouette on the horizon, 1962.

8mm home movie frame, c.1962 Illinois — sky-heavy window shot from a moving vehicle, distant crane or tower silhouette above flat open fields. — Open sky over flat Illinois countryside viewed from a moving vehicle, 1962.

8mm home movie frame, c.1962 Illinois — final travel shot showing rural roadside landscape with distant structures and a crane-like silhouette. — Rural Illinois roadside landscape from a moving vehicle, 1962.

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