Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: Couple Walking on Flooded Road

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

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Couple Walking on Flooded Road — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a couple walking along a flooded rural road in Wauconda, Illinois. A person in a long coat walks away from a parked car toward the water-covered path, with bare trees and a house visible in the background. The scene shows melting snow and standing water, suggesting a spring thaw. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and a slightly shaky handheld perspective, evoking a nostalgic, documentary-style moment from 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: 123728953

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: 1961 Midwestern home-movie footage for edits needing rural spring flooding, road access, or everyday movement through a waterlogged landscape.
Period detail: The long coats, parked car shape, bare trees, and modest roadside setting may show early-1960s small-town Illinois during thaw or flood conditions.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged domestic viewpoint as two adults walk away from the camera along a wet road toward standing water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a flooded rural road, two adults in coats, a parked dark car, bare trees, fence posts, puddled grass, and distant houses.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, blue-shifted color, visible grain, edge vignetting, and handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for flooding, spring thaw, rural access, or mid-century everyday life.
Historical context: The clip visually documents ordinary residents navigating water over a road in a small Illinois community without proving a named flood event.
Research note: People are visible from a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; copyright, location, and any property considerations should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1961 Wauconda Illinois flooding, 8mm home movie flooded road, spring thaw rural road, and couple walking near parked car.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Wauconda or 1961 Illinois material, then broader home-movie scenes of flooding, thaw, roads, and rural weather.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1961 Wauconda, Illinois, two adults walk away from a parked car toward water covering a rural road. — Two adults approach a flooded road from beside a parked car.

A distant adult in a long coat walks along a wet road toward floodwater in Wauconda, Illinois, in 1961. — A figure walks toward standing water across the road.

An adult walks beside floodwater on a rural Wauconda road, with bare trees and distant houses visible in the 1961 home movie frame. — The walker moves along the road edge beside standing water.

The 1961 Wauconda home-movie view shows a distant adult near water covering the road, with fence posts and leafless trees around the scene. — A distant figure pauses near the water-covered road.

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