Wauconda Illinois USA-1961: River in Flood with Submerged Parking Sign and Car

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

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River in Flood with Submerged Parking Sign and Car — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic flood in Wauconda, Illinois. A submerged parking sign for 'Ranglin's River Grove' stands partially underwater, with a dark car barely visible in the floodwaters. Bare trees and a wooden post emerge from the rising water under an overcast sky. The footage shows natural film grain and slight camera shake, offering a raw, authentic look at a historical weather event. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123729460

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 coverage, local history programs, environmental documentaries, or archival inserts needing home-movie evidence of high water in Illinois.
Period detail: The 8mm frame may show early-1960s roadside signage, a dark mid-century car shape, bare winter or spring trees, and a simple wooden post partly surrounded by floodwater.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the observational value of a local home-movie witness pausing on rising water and a submerged parking sign rather than staging a composed news view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include floodwater, a partially submerged parking sign, a dark car in the distance, bare trees, brush, a wooden post, muddy shoreline, and overcast sky.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm grain, soft focus, blue-gray exposure, gate edges, dust marks, and slight handheld movement that support its physical-film archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, weather-history cutaway, local-memory beat, or transition between broader flood accounts and community-level impact.
Historical context: The view places flooding in an ordinary roadside or riverside setting, emphasizing how high water reached signage, vegetation, and nearby parked vehicles.
Research note: No people are visible, but the readable parking sign and possible business name should be reviewed for trademark, location, and editorial-use considerations separate from copyright.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 8mm Wauconda Illinois flood footage, vintage home movie river flooding, submerged parking sign, and mid-century U.S. floodwater scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Wauconda or Illinois material from 1961, then broader 1960s home-movie flood and severe-weather footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Wauconda, Illinois floodwater scene with a partly submerged parking sign, bare trees, a dark car, brush, and a wooden post. — Floodwater rises around a roadside parking sign, brush, trees, and a distant car.

Wauconda, Illinois flood scene on 8mm with rippling water, a distant car, bare trees, brush, and a roadside parking sign. — A distant car and parking sign stand near rippling floodwater and bare trees.

1961 home-movie view of Wauconda floodwater reaching a wooden post and roadside parking sign, with trees and a distant car behind. — Floodwater covers the area around a post while a parking sign and car remain visible beyond.

Wauconda, Illinois floodwater in 1961 with a foreground post, bare trees, brush, a distant car, and a cropped parking sign. — A foreground post and roadside sign frame the flooded waterline and distant car.

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