Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: The Frozen Pond Surrounded By Bare Trees

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

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The Frozen Pond Surrounded By Bare Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a quiet winter scene at a frozen pond in Wauconda, Illinois. Bare trees frame the view, their dark silhouettes contrasting against the icy surface and overcast sky. A small white house sits on the far shore, nestled among leafless woods. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and subtle camera movement, offering a nostalgic glimpse of rural American life. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 123729018

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 Wauconda 8mm winter pond footage for documentary inserts, regional history sequences, or quiet rural Midwest atmosphere.
Period detail: The frame may show early-1960s lakeside residential surroundings, with bare winter trees, a small light-colored house, and an undeveloped frozen shoreline.
Home-movie behavior: The clip holds a simple home-movie view from shore, observing the frozen pond without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a frozen pond, bare tree trunks and branches, shoreline brush, a small white house, distant woods, and dark foreground vegetation.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, cool color shift, gate edges, and slight handheld variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a winter cutaway, establishing insert, reflective transition, or memory beat within a 1960s Midwest home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for quiet residential lakeside life in Wauconda during winter, without showing identifiable people or activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location sensitivities should still be checked before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1961 Wauconda Illinois frozen pond, 8mm winter lake home movie, bare trees shoreline, and rural Midwest archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1961 Wauconda material, then broader frozen pond or quiet winter landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame of a frozen pond, bare trees, shoreline brush, and a small white house across the water. — A frozen pond framed by winter trees, with a small house visible beyond the far shore.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois view across a frozen pond toward bare woods and a small white house, with dark tree trunks at the frame edges. — The camera looks across ice and water toward winter woods and a distant house.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois frame showing a frozen pond through leafless branches, with shoreline brush and a small house on the far side. — Leafless branches and shoreline brush frame the frozen pond and distant house.

1961 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame of a frozen pond bordered by bare trees, dark foreground trunks, and a distant light-colored house. — A dark tree trunk frames the frozen pond as the far shoreline and house remain visible.

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