Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: Car Submerged in Flooded Street

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

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Car Submerged in Flooded Street — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a flooded street in Wauconda, Illinois. A classic car with a two-tone brown and white body is partially submerged in murky water, its wheels barely visible. The camera pans slowly across the flooded road, showing rippling water and debris, with the dark silhouette of a tree trunk appearing in the final frame. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic look of a 1960s home movie, evoking a sense of historical Americana and unexpected weather events.

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: 123729426

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. Midwest flood, weather, road, and home-movie inserts in documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The visible two-tone automobile and 8mm color stock may show early-1960s everyday road conditions during flooding.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observer's view, lingering on floodwater, a partly seen car, and street surface rather than posed subjects.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippling floodwater, a partial classic car, submerged pavement, debris or branches, dark vertical tree trunks, and film frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, soft focus, and handheld framing as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, weather transition, disaster cutaway, or memory beat for flooding and small-town road disruption.
Historical context: The scene documents a flooded roadway in Wauconda, Illinois, with attention on water depth and street conditions rather than emergency response.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright and any property or location permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 Wauconda Illinois flood footage, 8mm flooded street, vintage road flooding, classic car in floodwater, and home movie weather damage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel flooding shots, then Wauconda or 1961 Illinois material, then broader vintage flood and severe-weather street scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame showing a partial classic car beside floodwater covering the roadway. — A partly visible car stands at the edge of a flooded road as water ripples across the surface.

Floodwater spreads across a Wauconda road in this 1961 8mm frame, with reflections and pavement barely visible. — The camera holds on rippling floodwater covering the roadway.

A 1961 Wauconda flood scene viewed past dark tree trunks, with water covering the street below. — Tree trunks partially block the view of floodwater pooled over the road.

Final 1961 Wauconda frame showing rippling floodwater and a dark vertical trunk or post near the roadway. — The shot ends on floodwater and a dark vertical trunk or post along the flooded street.

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