Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: Flooded Neighborhood with Submerged Houses

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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 — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a flooded residential neighborhood in Wauconda, Illinois. The footage shows murky water submerging yards, with houses partially underwater and debris scattered along the shoreline. Bare trees and fallen leaves suggest late autumn or early winter. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film adds to the nostalgic, archival feel. This raw, unedited clip offers authentic historical footage of a natural disaster, ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or historical storytelling.

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: 123729294

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 8mm home-movie footage suited to documentary or museum sequences about flooding, small-town neighborhoods, and residential storm aftermath.
Period detail: Bare trees, fallen leaves, modest lakeside houses, and color 8mm texture may show a late-autumn or early-winter residential flood scene from the early 1960s.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a nearby bank or yard, giving the flood an unstaged resident's-eye view rather than a formal news report.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include floodwater, partially submerged yards, shoreline debris, bare trees, stacked wood, distant houses, and reflections on the water.
Film character: The clip carries a handheld 8mm look with soft focus, visible grain, color fading, gate edges, and slight exposure variation across the short shot.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a cutaway, establishing insert, transition, or memory beat for flood damage and community vulnerability.
Historical context: The footage visually documents high water around a residential lakeside area, suggesting how seasonal flooding could affect homes, yards, and shoreline materials.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are apparent, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related use should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1961 Wauconda flood footage, 8mm flooded neighborhood, Illinois home movie flood, submerged houses, and lakeside debris.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1961 Illinois footage, then broader home-movie material showing floods, lakes, houses, or storm aftermath.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Wauconda 8mm frame showing floodwater near bare trees, shoreline debris, stacked wood, and houses beyond the water. — Floodwater reaches a wooded shoreline with debris and houses visible in the distance.

1961 Wauconda home-movie frame of a flooded shoreline with bare trees, stacked lumber, scattered debris, and distant houses. — A flooded residential edge is seen through trees, with wood and debris along the bank.

1961 Wauconda 8mm frame showing broad floodwater, distant houses, poles, tree reflections, branches, and debris at the lower edge. — The camera opens to a wider view of water covering the neighborhood edge.

1961 Wauconda home-movie frame showing floodwater across a residential area, with distant houses, poles, bare branches, and debris. — A quiet flooded residential area fills the frame, with houses and poles across the water.

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