Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: Brick-Lined Garden Beds and Bird Bath

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

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Brick-Lined Garden Beds and Bird Bath — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched suburban backyard in Wauconda, Illinois. The clip features a well-maintained garden with a brick-lined flower bed, a terracotta bird bath, and a chain-link fence enclosing the property. Lush green grass and blooming flowers, including purple and white blossoms, fill the frame, evoking a sense of mid-century Americana. The footage exhibits natural film grain and slight color fading, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. This archival clip offers authentic period detail for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical storytelling.

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: 123728095

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 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 for requests needing 1960s Midwestern home-movie backyard and garden cutaways for documentary, museum, education, or period domestic-life sequences.
Period detail: The chain-link fence, clipped lawn, brick-edged flower bed, and simple bird bath may show suburban yard styling in early 1960s Wauconda, Illinois.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes a quiet, unstaged yard and garden detail, preserving the everyday attention home-movie makers gave to family surroundings.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include purple blossoms, lawn grass, a brick flower border, terracotta bird bath, chain-link fence, house siding, shrubs, and garden plants.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, and exposure variation that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm exterior insert, seasonal transition, domestic cutaway, or memory beat between family scenes.
Historical context: The clip gives visual context for a maintained suburban yard, showing domestic landscaping and outdoor space without identifiable people present.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1961 8mm Illinois backyard garden, Wauconda home movie flowers, mid-century suburban lawn, and vintage bird bath cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Wauconda or 1961 Illinois home movies, then broader 1960s suburban garden footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close view of purple and white garden flowers in 1961 home-movie footage from Wauconda, Illinois. — Purple blossoms fill the frame in a maintained backyard garden.

1961 Wauconda backyard showing a lawn, brick garden border, terracotta bird bath, flowers, and chain-link fence. — A brick-edged flower bed and bird bath stand beside a chain-link fence.

Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame with a maintained backyard garden, lawn, bird bath, and chain-link fence. — The camera holds on a landscaped backyard flower bed with a bird bath.

1961 suburban backyard in Wauconda with grass, flowers, a brick-bordered bed, bird bath, fence, and house exterior. — A quiet backyard garden view shows lawn, flowers, fence, and house siding.

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