Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: Flooded Lakeside Property with Submerged Dock and Boat

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

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Flooded Lakeside Property with Submerged Dock and Boat — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a flooded lakeside property in Wauconda, Illinois. The view, framed by a window, shows a wide expanse of water submerging docks and grassy areas, with bare trees and distant houses visible. A small boat rests on a partially submerged dock, and scattered debris litters the shoreline. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded colors, and a nostalgic, documentary-style quality, 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: 123728712

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1961 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm home-movie footage for productions needing a brief archival view of lakeside flooding and shoreline damage.
Period detail: The frame may show early-1960s residential lakeside details, including simple dock structures, small boats, bare trees, and a quiet rural-suburban shoreline.
Home-movie behavior: The scene is filmed from inside or behind a window, giving the flood view an unstaged household observation rather than a news or official survey perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include floodwater, submerged docks, small boats, leafless trees, shoreline debris, grass, fence posts, and distant houses.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, faded color, gate shadows, and slight handheld framing that reinforce its home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transition, or memory beat for local flooding, lakeside life, weather impact, or family-recorded disaster context.
Historical context: The clip documents a residential lakeside area under high water, showing how flooding reached docks, lawns, and shoreline objects in a local community setting.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible in the sampled frames, but copyright, location, and property-context review should remain separate.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1961 Wauconda Illinois flood footage, 8mm lakeside flooding, submerged dock home movie, and vintage shoreline flood scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1961 Illinois material, then broader vintage flood and lakeside property footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie view of floodwater around docks and boats, framed by a dark window edge. — Floodwater covers the lakeside property around docks, boats, trees, and scattered shoreline debris.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a flooded shoreline with submerged dock sections, boats, and bare trees. — A flooded shoreline sits behind the window frame, with boats and dock structures partly surrounded by water.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois view of a flooded lakeside yard, with docks and small boats near a high-water shoreline. — The flooded yard and shoreline show docks, boats, bare trees, and debris near the water's edge.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame of floodwater across a lakeside property, seen from behind a window. — High water fills the lakeside view as docks, boats, trees, and shoreline debris remain visible from the window.

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