Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: Trees and White Building by Lake

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

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Trees and White Building by Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil lakeside scene in Wauconda, Illinois. The camera pans slowly across a calm body of water, framed by bare trees in early spring. A white building is visible in the distance across the lake, nestled among the trees. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural grain, and slightly faded colors with a distinct purple-blue tint on the water. The dark, irregular borders suggest the clip was shot through a window or viewed through a projector. This authentic archival footage evokes a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere of mid-century American life.

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: 123728347

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 footage from Wauconda, Illinois, suited to documentary or museum requests for quiet mid-century lakeside atmosphere.
Period detail: The bare trees, soft color, and distant low building may show an early-spring lakeshore setting in a 1961 Illinois home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The unstaged value is a casual camera pan across water and trees, preserving an ordinary lakeside view rather than a planned scenic composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm lake water, leafless trees, shaded shoreline ground, brush on the far bank, and a pale distant building.
Film character: The clip carries soft 8mm grain, faded color with blue-purple water tones, slight blur, and dark frame borders from the original film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, reflective transition, or memory beat between family or regional sequences.
Historical context: The footage documents a modest lakeside view in Wauconda without visible people, signs, vehicles, or confirmed landmark identifiers.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location context, and any property implications should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1961 8mm Wauconda lake trees, vintage Illinois home movie water, bare trees by lake, and mid-century lakeshore cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Wauconda or 1961 Illinois footage, then broader quiet lakeside nature scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Wauconda lakeshore view with leafless trees in the foreground and a pale distant building across the water. — Leafless trees frame a quiet lakeshore with a distant pale building across the water.

Wauconda, Illinois lakeside frame from 1961 showing bare branches, calm water, and a pale building beyond the far bank. — Calm water and bare lakeside trees with a pale building visible beyond the opposite shore.

1961 8mm frame of a Wauconda lakeshore, with a foreground tree trunk, blue-toned water, and a distant pale building. — A foreground tree trunk stands along the shaded shore as the lake and distant building remain visible.

Wauconda lakeshore view from 1961 with bare trees, calm water, far-bank brush, and shaded ground near the shore. — The pan settles on bare trees and quiet water, with brush lining the opposite bank.

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