Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: View Of Calm Lake And Brown Building On A Clear Day

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

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View Of Calm Lake And Brown Building On A Clear Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil scene at Wauconda, Illinois. A small brown brick building sits beside a calm lake, partially surrounded by floodwaters. Bare trees line the shoreline under a clear sky, with a dirt path winding through the foreground. The footage, framed by the camera's edge, shows subtle movement and natural film grain, evoking a quiet, nostalgic moment from the early 1960s.

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: 123728513

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 lake footage suited for inserts about Midwestern small-town waterfronts, weather, flooding, or quiet domestic landscapes.
Period detail: The scene may show early 1960s shoreline conditions through the 8mm color stock, bare trees, dirt path, small masonry building, and informal outdoor framing.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a casual home-movie vantage point, holding on the lakeside building, water, trees, and foreground shoreline without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brown masonry building, calm lake water, bare shoreline trees, brush, a dirt path, and a pale foreground roof or boat edge.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, rounded frame edges, and contact-sheet registration that reflect its physical home-movie source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm establishing insert, weather-related cutaway, location transition, or reflective memory beat in a 1960s Midwest sequence.
Historical context: The footage provides visual context for a Wauconda lakeside environment in 1961 without showing identifiable people, signage, traffic, or commercial activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1961 8mm Wauconda Illinois lake, Midwest home movie waterfront, bare trees by lake, and small building near floodwater.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1961 Wauconda or Illinois footage, and then broader lake, weather, and small-town landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a small brown lakeside building, still water, bare trees, brush, and a dirt path. — A small brown building stands near calm lake water behind bare shoreline trees.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois view of a brown building near still lake water, partly obscured by bare branches and 8mm frame edges. — The camera holds on the lakeside building and surrounding bare trees.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois lakeside frame with still water, bare trees, shoreline brush, and a pale curved roof or boat edge in the foreground. — Bare trees stand between the camera and the quiet lake surface.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing still lake water, leafless trees, brush, and a pale curved foreground surface. — The final frame emphasizes the quiet lake and leafless shoreline trees.

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