Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: Men Monitor The Rise In Water Levels After Heavy Rains

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

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Men Monitor The Rise In Water Levels After Heavy Rains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures two men in heavy coats standing on a flooded rural road in Wauconda, Illinois. The overcast sky casts a muted blue-gray light over the scene as water submerges a field and partially covers a wooden fence. The men observe the rising floodwaters, their figures silhouetted against the flooded landscape. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and film edge artifacts, offering authentic archival footage of a natural disaster in a quiet American town.

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: 123728926

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 edits needing rural Illinois flooding, weather aftermath, or community response visuals.
Period detail: The heavy coats, rural road, wooden fence posts, and muted color 8mm look support the supplied 1961 Wauconda, Illinois context.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged observer quality as two adults stand near the waterline and watch the flooded road and field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two adults in coats, a flooded rural road, fence posts in water, bare trees, utility poles, muddy ground, and overcast sky.
Film character: Soft focus, handheld framing, blue-gray color shift, gate edges, and grain give the short clip a clear physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, establishing insert, weather aftermath beat, or quiet transition in a flood or rural community sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually documents high water over a low rural road and adjacent field without identifying the cause beyond the supplied heavy-rain context.
Research note: Adults are visible but not clearly identifiable; review likeness considerations separately from copyright and any location or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1961 Wauconda flood, 1960s 8mm rural Illinois flooding, heavy rain aftermath, men watching high water, and home movie flood road.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Wauconda or 1961 Illinois footage, then with rural flooding and severe-weather aftermath scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two adults in coats observe floodwater along a rural road in Wauconda, Illinois, based on supplied 1961 metadata. — Adults stand at the edge of a flooded rural road and field.

Two adults in heavy coats stand beside rising water on a rural Wauconda roadside, with fence posts partly submerged. — Adults monitor high water near a partly submerged fence line.

A coat-wearing adult stands by a flooded rural road in the supplied Wauconda, Illinois 1961 home-movie scene. — A figure stands near the road as floodwater fills the adjacent field.

Floodwater spreads across a rural field and fence line in Wauconda, Illinois, with the people now mostly out of view. — Floodwater surrounds fence posts beside a quiet rural road.

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