Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: Flooded House On Stilts Near Lake

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

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Flooded House On Stilts Near Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a flooded rural property in Wauconda, Illinois. A white clapboard house stands on elevated stilts, its foundation and yard submerged in murky water. Bare trees line the flooded landscape, their reflections rippling in the still water. A large white propane tank and utility equipment sit on the raised porch, emphasizing the home's adaptation to the flood. The scene, framed by the film's natural grain and slight color fading, conveys a quiet, somber mood of a community enduring a natural disaster. This archival footage offers a poignant glimpse into mid-century American life and environmental challenges.

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: 123728737

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: 1960s 8mm home-movie footage for productions needing a rural Midwestern flood cutaway or environmental weather aftermath insert.
Period detail: The white clapboard house, elevated supports, propane tank, bare trees, and faded 8mm color support a mid-century rural residential setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observer's view of floodwater around a home, filmed from a steady outdoor vantage without people or directed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white clapboard house, raised supports, floodwater, bare trees, muddy yard, propane tank, utility equipment, and film-frame edges.
Film character: Soft 8mm grain, slight color shift, edge vignetting, and mild exposure variation give the flooded scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, weather aftermath cutaway, or quiet memory beat in a sequence about flooding or rural housing.
Historical context: The view documents a residential property adapted to standing water, offering visual context for flood-prone lake-area living without showing public response.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or music are evident, but copyright and property-related permissions should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1961 Wauconda Illinois flood footage, 8mm flooded house, rural lake-area flooding, and mid-century home movie flood scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Wauconda or 1961 Illinois material, then broader home-movie footage of floods, lakes, or rural property.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing floodwater around a white clapboard house, bare trees, muddy ground, and a propane tank. — Floodwater stands around a white clapboard house and nearby trees.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois frame with a white clapboard house, flooded yard, bare trees, reflected water, and utility equipment near the wall. — A flooded yard lies beside the house, with bare trees reflected in the water.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame showing a flooded residential yard, white house wall, propane tank, bare trees, and muddy ground. — Floodwater covers the low ground beside the house and trees.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois frame showing the side of a white clapboard house on raised supports, floodwater, bare trees, and a propane tank. — The house appears raised above floodwater beside a line of bare trees.

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