Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: The House Is Floating In The Water And There Are

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

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The House Is Floating In The Water And There Are — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a flooded rural landscape in Wauconda, Illinois. A small house stands partially submerged in rising water, surrounded by bare trees and debris. The scene, viewed through a window frame, shows muddy water covering the ground and reflecting the overcast sky. The footage has a grainy, nostalgic quality with muted colors and natural film artifacts, offering a rare glimpse of a local flood event from the early 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123728535

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 footage from Wauconda, Illinois supports documentary requests for rural flood damage, local disaster scenes, and mid-century home-movie evidence.
Period detail: Bare trees, muted color stock, a small waterside structure, and muddy ground may show early-1960s rural conditions during seasonal flooding.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from behind a window or doorway, giving the scene the quiet, unstaged perspective of a resident or visitor watching floodwater nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a partially submerged small building, leafless trees, standing water, brush piles, muddy ground, window framing, and distant shoreline.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and dark frame edges that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, cutaway, or memory beat for flooding, rural property damage, weather aftermath, or local-history sequences.
Historical context: The clip documents a rural landscape disrupted by high water without showing people, vehicles, signage, or identifiable emergency response activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are visible or indicated, but copyright, location context, and any property-related use should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1961 Wauconda Illinois flood home movie, 8mm rural flood house in water, and mid-century Illinois storm aftermath footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1961 Illinois material, then broader rural flood and weather-aftermath footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a small building near standing floodwater, bare trees, brush, and dark window framing. — A small structure stands beside high water in a rural flooded landscape.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois frame with a small waterside building, leafless trees, reflected floodwater, brush, and muddy foreground. — Floodwater fills the ground around trees and a small building.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm still showing a small house-like structure, high water, leafless trees, brush, and a muddy bank. — The camera holds on a small building at the edge of floodwater.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame of a small building beside floodwater, with bare trees, brush, and muddy ground in view. — A rural property sits close to floodwater under bare trees.

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