Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: Flooded Rural Landscape with House and Bare Trees

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

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Flooded Rural Landscape with House and Bare Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a rural landscape in Wauconda, Illinois. The view, framed by dark borders, shows a flooded field with bare trees and a small house in the distance. A wooden fence and scattered debris are visible in the foreground, with a dirt path leading toward the water. The footage has a soft, grainy quality with faded colors typical of Super 8 film from the early 1960s. The camera remains mostly static, offering a quiet, nostalgic glimpse of a flooded countryside.

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: 123728677

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: Useful for 1960s documentary or educational edits needing rural Illinois flood landscape footage from an 8mm home-movie source.
Period detail: The scene may show early 1960s rural conditions through bare trees, a simple outbuilding or house, unpaved ground, fencing, and flooded lowland.
Home-movie behavior: The mostly static home-movie view records a flooded countryside from a nearby path or yard without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include floodwater, bare deciduous trees, a light-colored house, wooden fencing, debris, posts, grass, and a dirt path.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, faded color, dark frame borders, and slight exposure variation typical of small-gauge home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural flood cutaway, seasonal transition, environmental context insert, or quiet memory beat.
Historical context: The footage documents a localized rural landscape with standing water and sparse springlike vegetation, without identifying landmarks or public events.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or music are visible or indicated, but property, location, and copyright clearance should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Search matches include 1961 Wauconda Illinois 8mm flood footage, rural flooded field home movie, bare trees house flood scene, and vintage Midwest landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1961 Illinois material, then broader rural flooding or Midwest landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing floodwater beyond bare trees, with fence posts, debris, grass, and a distant house. — Floodwater spreads across a rural landscape behind fencing and bare trees, with a small light-colored house in the distance.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame of a flooded field seen past fence rails and bare trees, with a house on the right. — A flooded low area sits behind a rough fence line and bare trees, with a light-colored house at the edge of the frame.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing standing water behind leafless trees, a house, fence posts, and uneven rural ground. — The camera holds on a rural flood scene, with standing water behind trees and a light-colored house beyond the fence line.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois frame showing a flooded rural area beside a dirt path, with bare trees, fence rails, debris, and a house. — A dirt path and fence line lead toward floodwater, bare trees, and a light-colored house in the rural background.

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