Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: Serene Lakeside View Through Trees

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

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Serene Lakeside View Through Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside view from a wooded vantage point in Wauconda, Illinois. Bare trees frame the foreground, revealing a calm blue lake with small docks and a white structure along the shore. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and a soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, peaceful atmosphere of a quiet spring day. The natural setting and period-specific film quality make it ideal for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic 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: 123728262

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: 1961 8mm home-movie lakeside view suited to documentary inserts about midcentury leisure, rural Illinois settings, or quiet seasonal memory beats.
Period detail: The soft 8mm color, wooded shoreline, simple docks, and bare spring trees may show a modest early-1960s lakeside recreation setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the lake from a shaded wooded vantage point, giving the clip the unstaged feel of a family visitor pausing to record a quiet view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include bare foreground trees, a blue lake, small docks, shoreline brush, a pale lakeside structure, leaf litter, and distant wooded banks.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color fading, and gentle exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm establishing cutaway, seasonal transition, or reflective pause between family, travel, or lakeside sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually places a quiet lake within a wooded Illinois setting, suggesting everyday recreation rather than a formal public event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any shoreline property questions still need normal review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1961 8mm Wauconda lake, Illinois home movie shoreline, vintage lakeside trees, and midcentury lake dock cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1961 Wauconda or Illinois lake footage, then broader vintage wooded shoreline and quiet nature home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 8mm view in Wauconda, Illinois, looking through bare trees toward a calm blue lake and small docks. — A wooded lakeside view looks across bare trees toward docks on the shore.

Wauconda lakeside scene from 1961, with dark foreground trees, a blue lake, docks, and a wooded opposite bank. — Dark foreground trees frame a quiet lake and shoreline docks.

Soft-focus 1961 8mm lakeshore view in Wauconda, Illinois, with bare trees, blue water, docks, and shoreline brush. — A home-movie frame records the lake through sparse spring trees.

1961 Wauconda lakeside view through dark foreground trees, showing blue water, small docks, and a pale shoreline area. — Foreground trees create a shaded frame around the lakeside docks.

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