Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: Frozen Lake View Through Window With Fence

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

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Frozen Lake View Through Window With Fence — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a quiet, overcast day at a frozen lake in Wauconda, Illinois. The view is framed by a dark structure, possibly a window or doorway, with a weathered wooden fence post and barbed wire in the foreground. A bare tree stands near the icy shoreline, and the frozen lake stretches toward a distant treeline under a gray sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and subtle camera movement, evoking a nostalgic, contemplative mood of rural winter life.

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: 123728907

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: 1961 8mm home-movie footage for productions needing a quiet rural winter lake view or seasonal Midwestern establishing cutaway.
Period detail: The frame may show early-1960s rural lakefront details in Wauconda, including barbed wire fencing, bare shoreline growth, and a distant treeline.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged home-movie gaze from behind a dark window or doorway toward an icy lake, held quietly without people or action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a frozen lake surface, dark window framing, barbed wire, fence posts, bare shoreline brush, snow patches, and a distant treeline.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, blue winter color cast, visible grain, gate edges, and slight handheld variation that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a winter insert, reflective transition, rural memory beat, or quiet environmental cutaway between family scenes.
Historical context: The view suggests everyday lakeside winter life rather than a public event, with emphasis on weather, rural boundary fencing, and still water or ice.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any location or property questions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1961 Wauconda Illinois frozen lake, 8mm winter lake view, rural fence shoreline, and home movie icy landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Wauconda material, then other 1961 Illinois lake footage, then broader rural winter shoreline or frozen water scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame showing a frozen lake through dark framing, with barbed wire, fence posts, bare brush, and snow at the shore. — Frozen lake and shoreline fence viewed from behind a dark window or doorway frame.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois view across an icy lake from behind a dark frame, with barbed wire, fence posts, sparse brush, and distant trees. — Barbed wire and fence posts frame a quiet frozen lake under a gray winter sky.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois frame of a frozen lake shoreline through dark framing, with a leaning fence post, barbed wire, snow traces, and brush. — A leaning fence post stands before the frozen lake and low winter shoreline.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame showing a frozen lake beyond barbed wire and a fence post, with sparse shoreline brush and dark framing. — A single fence post and barbed wire line sit between the camera and frozen lake.

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