Wauconda Illinois USA-1960: An Old Lady Plucking Flowers From The Garden On A

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationWauconda, Illinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Wauconda Illinois

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An Old Lady Plucking Flowers From The Garden On A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a woman tending to a lush garden in Wauconda, Illinois. Dressed in a light-colored dress, she carefully plucks flowers among vibrant gladiolus and other blooms under bright sunlight. The scene unfolds in a sun-drenched backyard with tall trees and a pond visible in the background, framed by natural foliage. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American summer. This archival clip offers authentic period detail for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 123744257

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: Yes
Minors 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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1960 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Wauconda, Illinois, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing 1960s Midwestern home-movie garden life, domestic leisure, or quiet summer cutaways for documentary and education edits.
Period detail: The light dress, backyard flower bed, pond edge, and 8mm color look may show mid-century suburban or small-town garden activity in Wauconda, Illinois.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged home-movie moment of an older woman tending flowers, filmed from a casual family viewpoint rather than a formal production setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a garden bed, tall flowers, leafy trees, a pond or water edge, bright grass, a woman in a light dress, and soft 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, color shift, and slight handheld framing.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a memory beat, seasonal insert, domestic-life cutaway, or quiet transition into themes of gardening, aging, family, or summer.
Historical context: The scene visually documents everyday outdoor home activity, with a garden and water-side yard suggesting informal leisure and household care rather than public ceremony.
Research note: A visible adult face or likeness may require review, and copyright status is separate from any likeness or property considerations.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1960 8mm home movie garden, Wauconda Illinois flowers, older woman gardening, Midwestern backyard, and vintage summer domestic footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1960 Illinois home movies, then broader garden and summer family-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 8mm home-movie frame from Wauconda, Illinois showing trees, grass, and a water-side yard through dark film borders. — Trees and grass frame a sunlit garden or yard area near water.

1960 Wauconda home-movie view of a leafy yard with grass, trees, and a possible pond edge in soft 8mm color. — A quiet view of trees and grass near the pond before the garden activity appears.

Older woman in a light dress tends a colorful garden in Wauconda, Illinois, with tall flowers, shrubs, trees, and water behind her. — An older woman bends over flowers in a sunlit garden beside the water.

1960 home-movie frame of an older woman in a light dress plucking or tending flowers in a Wauconda garden with trees and water behind. — The woman continues working among tall flowers and garden plants.

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