Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: Harvesting Roses From Rose Bushes

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationWauconda, Illinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Wauconda Illinois

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Harvesting Roses From Rose Bushes — Clip Details

A man in a light-colored shirt tends to a lush rose bush in a sun-drenched garden, carefully plucking blossoms. The scene shifts to a woman in a plaid dress and a man in a blue-and-white checkered shirt working together, harvesting roses from dense greenery. A wooden ladder leans against the foliage as they gather the blooms. Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a quiet, nostalgic moment of domestic gardening with natural light, soft focus, and authentic film grain.

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: 123727995

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 2318 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: glenn t evans,baby come home,june,tommy
Reel-level year note: 1961
Reel-level location note: moline illinois
Date: 1961 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: Wauconda, 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 1960s Wauconda home-movie footage for productions needing domestic gardening, rose harvesting, or everyday outdoor leisure inserts.
Period detail: The clothing, 8mm color stock, soft exposure, and handheld garden framing support an early-1960s home-movie setting without visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves informal, unstaged garden work as adults lean into rose bushes, gather blossoms, and cooperate around dense foliage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rose bushes, purple-pink blooms, adults in plaid and checkered shirts, a light shirt, greenery, lawn, and a wooden ladder.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, gate edges, and slight handheld drift that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief cutaway, seasonal memory beat, domestic labor insert, or transition within a mid-century family or gardening sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows ordinary home gardening and flower gathering in a suburban-looking outdoor setting, with no visible public event or identifiable landmark.
Research note: Faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are evident, and copyright clearance remains separate from people or property concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 Wauconda 8mm home movie rose harvesting, vintage garden footage, adults gathering flowers, and mid-century domestic gardening.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel home-movie scenes, then Wauconda 1961 material, then broader 1960s gardening, flowers, and domestic outdoor work.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1961 Wauconda home-movie footage, a man in a light shirt tends a dense rose bush with pink-purple blossoms. — A man bends toward a rose bush while gathering or tending blossoms in the garden.

A man in a light shirt bends close to the greenery and blossoms in this 1961 Wauconda garden scene. — The man leans deeper into the flowering shrub as he works among the roses.

A woman in plaid and a man in a blue-and-white checkered shirt work beside rose bushes and a wooden ladder in Wauconda, 1961. — Two adults work together at the rose bushes, with a wooden ladder leaning nearby.

The woman and man reach into dense rose foliage together, continuing the 1961 Wauconda flower harvest scene. — The pair reach toward blossoms in the thick rose bush as the ladder remains beside them.

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