Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: House with Yellow Gable by Flooded Lake

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

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House with Yellow Gable by Flooded Lake — Clip Details

Panning from left to right across a rural landscape in Wauconda, Illinois, 1961, this 8mm home movie captures a white house with a yellow gable near a flooded lake. Bare trees line the shore under an overcast sky, with a muddy path and scattered debris in the foreground. The footage shows natural film grain and slight color fading, characteristic of vintage Super 8 home movies from the early 1960s. The camera movement reveals a quiet, isolated countryside scene, evoking a sense of nostalgia and historical Americana.

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: 123728669

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s rural Midwest establishing material, especially documentary inserts about lakeside homes, flooding, seasonal thaw, or quiet Illinois countryside.
Period detail: The bare trees, modest lakeside house, muddy track, and color 8mm look may show early 1960s rural residential scenery in Wauconda, Illinois.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie perspective, panning across a quiet shoreline rather than presenting a composed scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white house with yellow gable, leafless trees, flooded lake water, muddy path, fence or small bridge, brush, and open winter-brown ground.
Film character: The 8mm footage carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color fade, gate edges, and handheld panning that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief rural establishing shot, transition, memory beat, or cutaway for shoreline flooding and small-town Illinois context.
Historical context: The view suggests a sparsely built lakeside rural area, with seasonal bare trees and wet ground giving context without proving a specific flood event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or music are visible or indicated, but the house and land should be reviewed for property-use context and copyright status separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1961 Wauconda Illinois 8mm home movie, rural lakeside house, flooded lake shore, bare trees, and Midwest countryside pan.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Wauconda or 1961 Illinois material, then broader rural lake, flooding, and home-movie countryside scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a white house with yellow gable near flooded lake water and leafless trees. — A rural house stands near high lake water behind bare trees.

The pan continues across the Wauconda lakeside house, with leafless trees, wet ground, and distant shoreline visible. — The camera pans along the muddy lakeside approach toward the house.

A closer portion of the pan shows the white house and yellow gable beside water, with muddy ruts and debris in the foreground. — Muddy ground and scattered material sit between the camera and lakeside house.

Final frame of the 1961 Wauconda pan holds on the lakeside house, leafless trees, muddy ground, and pale overcast sky. — The pan settles on the house and wet shoreline under an overcast sky.

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