Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: Flooded Neighborhood with Submerged Houses and Trees

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

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Flooded Neighborhood with Submerged Houses and Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a flooded residential area in Wauconda, Illinois. Houses and trees are partially submerged in murky brown water, with utility lines stretching across the scene. The footage shows a quiet, somber aftermath of a flood, viewed through a dark frame edge, with visible film grain and color fading typical of Super 8 archival footage. This raw, unedited clip offers a poignant glimpse into a natural disaster from the early 1960s.

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: 123729280

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: Useful for 1960s U.S. flood aftermath requests needing brief home-movie evidence of residential inundation and quiet disaster context.
Period detail: The 8mm look and 1961 metadata place the scene in early 1960s Wauconda, with modest houses, utility lines, bare trees, and floodwater as visible period clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint from behind dark tree trunks or frame edges, observing floodwater across a neighborhood without visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include flooded water, partially submerged houses, bare trees, utility lines, shoreline or road edges, branches, and dark foreground tree trunks.
Film character: The footage carries a soft 8mm texture with visible grain, faded color, handheld framing, dark gate edges, and slight exposure variation.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, cutaway, or memory beat for flood aftermath, small-town vulnerability, or environmental disruption.
Historical context: The scene visually documents a residential area affected by high water, but the frames alone do not identify the cause, scale, or official event name.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but houses and residential land appear in view, so property and location context should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 Wauconda Illinois flood footage, 8mm home movie flood aftermath, submerged houses, utility lines, and Midwestern neighborhood flooding.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel flood shots, then Wauconda or Illinois 1961 material, then broader 1960s home-movie flood and severe-weather aftermath footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame showing floodwater around distant houses, bare trees, and utility lines seen past dark foreground edges. — Flooded residential area seen through dark foreground framing, with houses and utility lines beyond the water.

Wauconda flood scene on 8mm film, with still water, a distant house, trees, utility lines, and a dark foreground trunk. — Still floodwater fills the foreground while a house and trees sit beyond the submerged area.

1961 Wauconda flood aftermath frame showing water across a neighborhood, a distant house, foreground branches, and utility lines. — A residential flood scene with branches in the foreground and a partially isolated house across the water.

Home-movie frame from Wauconda in 1961 showing floodwater, distant residential structures, utility lines, and silhouetted tree trunks. — Dark tree trunks frame floodwater stretching toward distant houses and trees.

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