Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: Person Walking Along Muddy Road Near Stagnant Water

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

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Person Walking Along Muddy Road Near Stagnant Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a person in a long coat walking slowly along a muddy rural road in Wauconda, Illinois. The scene is framed by a wooden fence and bare winter trees, with a large patch of stagnant, icy water dominating the center. The footage shows natural film grain and slight color fading, evoking a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere of a cold day in the American Midwest. A vehicle is partially visible on the left, suggesting the view is from inside a car. The person moves steadily away from the camera, creating a sense of quiet isolation and everyday life in the early 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Slow motion
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123728963

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: Useful for 1960s Midwest rural-life requests needing an 8mm home-movie cutaway of a lone person moving along a muddy roadside near standing water.
Period detail: The long coat, bare trees, unpaved or muddy road, simple fence line, and partial car view may show everyday cold-weather rural surroundings in early-1960s Wauconda.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has unstaged home-movie value as the camera watches a person slowly walk away from a vehicle-side viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lone coat-wearing person, muddy road, icy standing water, wooden fence posts, bare trees, grass, and a partial vehicle edge.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, gate shadows, and faded color that give the clip clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet insert, rural transition, memory beat, or cutaway suggesting isolation, winter thaw, or difficult road conditions.
Historical context: The scene records ordinary movement through a wet rural roadside setting without enough visual evidence to make broader claims about local events or land use.
Research note: A person is visible from a distance, so likeness review may still be needed, while copyright, location, and property questions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1961 Wauconda 8mm muddy road, Midwest rural winter thaw home movie, person walking near standing water, and vintage Illinois roadside footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1961 Illinois material, then broader themes of rural roads, winter thaw, and solitary travel.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1961 Wauconda, Illinois footage, a person walks away along a muddy road near icy standing water, fence posts, bare trees, and a partial vehicle edge. — A coat-wearing person walks away from the camera along a muddy road beside a flooded patch.

The person continues away from the camera on a muddy Wauconda roadside, with standing water, fence rails, bare trees, and grass visible in the frame. — The walker moves farther along the road as standing water fills the center of the scene.

A 1961 home-movie frame shows the walker farther down the muddy road near icy water, with a wooden fence, bare trees, and rural grassland around them. — The person remains small in frame while the flooded road area dominates the view.

At the end of the clip, the person is farther away on the muddy Wauconda road, with standing water, fence posts, bare trees, and grass still visible. — The walker recedes into the distance beyond the muddy, waterlogged roadside.

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