Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: Flooded Field with Fence and Water

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

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Flooded Field with Fence and Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a slow pan across a flooded rural field in Wauconda, Illinois. A weathered wooden fence post and barbed wire stretch across the foreground, framing the murky, flowing water that covers the landscape. The overcast sky casts a cool, muted blue-gray tone over the scene, with distant trees lining the horizon. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, offering authentic archival footage of a flooded Midwest farm.

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: 123728893

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 Midwest documentary requests needing rural floodwater, farm-edge landscape, or weather-related cutaway footage from home-movie 8mm material.
Period detail: The scene may show early-1960s rural Wauconda with open fields, simple fence posts, barbed wire, bare trees, and an unpaved waterlogged landscape.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, with the camera slowly panning across floodwater from behind a roadside or field fence.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include flooded water, a leaning fence post, barbed wire, muddy grass, distant tree lines, overcast sky, and handheld framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, cool color drift, dark frame edges, and slight handheld movement that support its physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, environmental cutaway, transition between rural scenes, or memory beat for flood or weather context.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a rural Midwest landscape under high water without showing people, vehicles, signage, or identifiable buildings in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1961 Wauconda Illinois flood footage, 8mm rural Midwest water, vintage farm fence cutaway, and home movie flooded field.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1961 Wauconda material, then broader rural floodwater, fence, and Midwest landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame showing floodwater beyond a leaning fence post and barbed wire, with trees on the horizon. — Flooded rural field seen past a fence post and wire.

The pan continues across floodwater in Wauconda, Illinois, with a dark fence post in front and a low tree line beneath the overcast sky. — Fence post in the foreground as floodwater covers the field.

A wider 1961 rural Wauconda view shows water spread across the field, with a fence post near the edge and bare trees along the horizon. — Wide view of floodwater stretching toward distant trees.

At the end of the pan, floodwater fills the rural Wauconda field while a fence post and diagonal rail or wire cross the foreground. — Fence line crosses the foreground beside a flooded field.

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