Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: Frozen Lake with Bare Trees and Distant House

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

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Frozen Lake with Bare Trees and Distant House — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a quiet winter scene at a frozen lake in Wauconda, Illinois. Bare trees frame the view, their dark branches silhouetted against the icy surface and overcast sky. In the distance, a small white house sits nestled among the trees, with a faintly visible barn or outbuilding nearby. The lake is partially frozen, with patches of ice and open water reflecting the muted light. A wooden structure and a wheel are visible in the foreground, suggesting a rural lakeside setting. The footage exhibits natural film grain and a cool blue color palette, evoking a sense of stillness and nostalgia from a bygone era.

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: 123729024

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1961 Midwest winter atmosphere in documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing quiet rural lakeside footage.
Period detail: The 8mm color scan may show early-1960s rural lakeside surroundings, with bare trees, simple shoreline structures, and distant low buildings.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the still, observational quality of a home movie camera lingering on a frozen lake from a sheltered shore.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a frozen lake, open water, bare trees, dark foreground trunks, distant white buildings, reeds, a small wooden object, and a wheel-like form.
Film character: Cool blue color, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure falloff, and handheld framing give the footage its physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a winter insert, rural transition, quiet memory beat, or establishing cutaway for a Midwestern lake setting.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for a cold-season lakeside environment in Wauconda, Illinois, without showing people, traffic, or public activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any incidental property questions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1961 8mm Wauconda Illinois frozen lake, Midwest winter home movie, rural shoreline, bare trees, and vintage snow footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Wauconda or 1961 Illinois footage, then broader frozen lake, rural winter, or home-movie nature scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame of a frozen lake viewed through foreground trees, with small buildings across the shoreline. — Frozen lakeside view framed by bare winter trees and distant buildings.

Home-movie frame from Wauconda, Illinois showing a cold lakeside view, foreground trees, ice, open water, and distant buildings. — A frozen lake and distant shoreline buildings seen between winter tree branches.

1961 8mm view of a partially frozen Wauconda lake, with a dark tree edge, distant buildings, and a small wooden foreground structure. — Partially frozen lake with bare trees and a small foreground structure near shore.

Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame showing winter trees, a frozen lake surface, open water, and distant low shoreline buildings. — Winter lake surface with ice, water, bare trees, and distant shoreline buildings.

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