Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: Floodwaters Flowing over Road and Through Fence

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

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Floodwaters Flowing over Road and Through Fence — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures floodwaters inundating a rural landscape in Wauconda, Illinois. The overcast sky casts a muted blue-gray tone over the scene as water flows past a wooden fence and submerges a dirt road. Bare trees and brush line the flooded field, with the camera held steady, offering a quiet, observational view of nature's force. The film’s grain and slight color shift reflect its age, preserving a moment of environmental change in mid-century America.

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: 123728915

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 edits needing brief rural Midwest flood coverage, weather impact cutaways, or home-movie evidence of water overtopping roads and fence lines.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft focus, bare trees, simple fence posts, and rural road may show a mid-century Illinois landscape during a flood event.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the flooding from a fixed, unstaged vantage point, preserving how a local filmer documented water rising across familiar land.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include floodwater, fence posts, a partly submerged road edge, bare trees, brush, distant low hills, overcast sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, muted blue-gray color, slight softness, and contact-frame edges that give the scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or environmental cutaway to establish flooding, seasonal weather, or rural vulnerability.
Historical context: The footage documents floodwater moving through a rural landscape, offering visual context for how weather disrupted roads, fields, and boundaries in a small Illinois setting.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are visible or indicated, but copyright, location confirmation, and any property-related use should still be reviewed before licensing.
Research search match: Search phrases might include 1961 Wauconda Illinois flood, 8mm rural floodwater, vintage home movie flooded road, and Midwest fence line inundation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Wauconda or 1961 Illinois material, and finally broader flood, storm, rural road, and water damage footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame showing floodwater spread past fence posts near a roadside with bare trees in the distance. — Floodwater spreads across a fence line and roadside in a rural landscape.

Flooded rural ground in Wauconda, Illinois, with water passing through fence posts and brush beneath a gray 1961 sky. — Water surrounds fence posts and low brush with a dark tree line beyond.

8mm home-movie view of Wauconda floodwater covering low ground beside a road and fence line in 1961. — Floodwater covers low ground beside the road and fence posts.

Rural Wauconda flood scene from 1961 showing water behind a fence line, bare shrubs, distant trees, and muted 8mm color. — Floodwater stands behind fence posts and bare shrubs in the rural scene.

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