Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: River With Trees On The Shore On A Sunny Day

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

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River With Trees On The Shore On A Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside scene in Wauconda, Illinois. The view, framed by bare tree branches in the foreground, reveals a calm blue lake with scattered logs and a muddy shoreline. Across the water, a treeline of green and brown foliage borders the shore, with a distant white building partially visible. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color shifts, and slight camera movement, evoking a nostalgic, sunlit spring day. This archival clip offers authentic 1960s Americana for documentaries, editorial content, and nostalgic projects.

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: 123728372

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: Supports requests for early 1960s Midwestern home-movie nature footage, especially quiet lakeside or river-shore cutaways for documentary, education, or memory sequences.
Period detail: The 1961 date is supported by metadata, while the visible clues are mainly seasonal trees, muddy shore, open water, and distant low buildings rather than identifiable era-specific objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, observing a calm shoreline from behind nearby trees with slight handheld movement and no visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include bare foreground branches, blue water, scattered logs or debris, a muddy bank, distant treeline, and a small pale building across the water.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, color shift, gate edges, and mild handheld instability that give the scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, nature transition, seasonal cutaway, or reflective memory beat between more active family or town scenes.
Historical context: The scene visually suggests a modest Midwestern waterside environment in spring or early-season foliage, without enough detail to identify a specific landmark or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but copyright, location, and any property-related use should still be reviewed according to the intended context.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1961 8mm Wauconda Illinois lakeshore, vintage home movie river with trees, muddy shoreline, and 1960s Midwest water cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1961 Wauconda or Illinois outdoor clips, and finally with broader lakeside, river, tree, or Americana scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing bare foreground trees, blue water, shoreline logs, and a distant treeline. — Bare branches frame a quiet stretch of water with logs along the muddy bank.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois lakeside view with leafless branches, calm blue water, logs, and distant trees across the shore. — The camera holds on blue water, shoreline debris, and a treeline beyond the bank.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame of a muddy lakeshore, scattered logs, blue water, and trees across the water. — A slightly lower view shows the muddy shore and logs against the blue water.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois frame showing calm water, shoreline logs, muddy bank, and a distant treeline with pale buildings partly visible. — Logs and muddy ground line the water, with trees and pale structures across the far shore.

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