Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: Flooded Forest Area With Debris And Still Water

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

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Flooded Forest Area With Debris And Still Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil, overcast scene of a flooded forest area in Wauconda, Illinois. The frame, viewed through a dark border, shows still water reflecting bare trees and scattered debris, with a distinct grainy texture and muted blue-gray tones characteristic of Super 8 footage. The quiet, melancholic atmosphere evokes a sense of forgotten nature, perfect for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or archival storytelling.

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: 123728644

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 of flooded woodland in Wauconda, Illinois, useful for documentary inserts on weather, rural landscapes, environmental memory, or Midwestern home-movie records.
Period detail: The muted color, soft focus, and 8mm frame edges support an early-1960s home-movie origin, while the visible landscape shows bare trees, still water, and scattered debris.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational value of a home-movie camera held on a quiet flooded scene rather than staged action or public ceremony.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include still floodwater, bare trees, shoreline brush, floating or lodged debris, dark film borders, and blue-gray reflections across the water.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture through coarse grain, gate edges, mild exposure variation, and a steady but handmade framing of the flooded woods.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, mood insert, environmental transition, or reflective memory beat for flood, wetland, or rural Illinois sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents a quiet flooded wooded area in Wauconda without visible people, vehicles, buildings, signage, or identifiable landmarks in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any property context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1961 Wauconda Illinois 8mm flood footage, flooded forest home movie, Midwestern water debris, and vintage woodland water scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wauconda 1961 material, then broader 1960s Illinois flood, wetland, forest, or weather-related footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing still floodwater below bare trees, with debris near the far bank and dark film borders. — Still water fills a wooded area, with bare trees and debris along the far edge.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame with blue-gray floodwater, bare trees, and scattered debris near the wooded shoreline. — Floodwater reflects the overcast wooded edge, with debris visible near the far bank.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm view of a flooded forest edge, with rippled water, bare trees, and debris lying near the shoreline. — A quiet flooded forest edge appears through grainy 8mm framing.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois frame showing still floodwater under bare trees, with debris along the bank and visible 8mm gate borders. — Still floodwater sits beneath a dense line of bare trees and brush.

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