Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: Woman Walking Cat in Tulip Garden

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

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Woman Walking Cat in Tulip Garden — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched suburban yard in Wauconda, Illinois. A brick bungalow with white-trimmed windows sits behind a lush garden bursting with red, yellow, and orange tulips. A concrete path winds through the green lawn, and a woman in a blue dress walks a small gray cat along the walkway. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color saturation, and a nostalgic mid-century American suburban atmosphere.

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: 123728221

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 for 1960s Midwestern suburban home-life requests, especially documentary or educational edits needing a quiet residential yard, garden, and domestic routine.
Period detail: The brick bungalow, white-trimmed windows, concrete walk, lawn, and tulip beds may show early-1960s American suburban residential landscaping.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value as the camera watches a woman briefly walk a small cat through a sunny yard.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brick house, white-framed windows, lawn, concrete path, tulip garden, shrubs, porch posts, and a woman with a small cat.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, warm color, visible grain, slight gate edges, and a steady home-movie viewpoint.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a suburban memory beat, garden cutaway, domestic-life insert, or transition between family home scenes.
Historical context: The scene documents a residential garden and household outdoor space in Wauconda, Illinois, without showing public landmarks or identifiable brands.
Research note: Rights review should consider copyright plus possible likeness and residential property concerns, even though no logos, minors, or music are evident.
Research search match: Searches might include 1961 Wauconda Illinois 8mm home movie, suburban yard tulip garden, brick bungalow, woman walking cat, and Midwest family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel home exteriors, then other Wauconda 1961 yard scenes, then broader 1960s suburban garden and domestic-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Wauconda yard view with a brick bungalow, white windows, tulips, shrubs, lawn, and a curving concrete path. — Brick bungalow and tulip garden seen from a shaded yard entrance.

1961 Wauconda residential yard with a brick house, white-framed windows, flowering tulips, shrubs, lawn, and walkway. — Sunlit residential garden with tulips in front of a brick house.

1961 Wauconda home-movie frame showing tulips, shrubs, a concrete path, lawn, and the side of a brick bungalow. — Concrete path curves past tulip beds toward the brick house.

1961 Wauconda yard scene with a woman in a blue dress beside a small gray cat near the path, tulips, lawn, and brick house. — Woman and small cat appear at the edge of the garden walkway.

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