Wauconda Illinois USA-1960: Woman Cutting Flowers In A Garden With Purple And Yellow Blooms

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

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Woman Cutting Flowers In A Garden With Purple And Yellow... — Clip Details

A woman in a light-colored patterned dress and headband tends to a vibrant flower bed in Wauconda, Illinois, 1960. Shot on 8mm film, the clip captures her carefully cutting tall yellow gladiolus blooms amidst lush greenery and purple globe amaranth flowers. The footage has a distinct vintage quality with natural sunlight, film grain, and a slightly faded color palette, evoking a nostalgic, peaceful summer day in a suburban garden.

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: 123744334

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

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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

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. home-movie requests needing suburban garden activity, domestic leisure, or seasonal flower footage for documentary or editorial context.
Period detail: The 8mm color, light patterned dress, headband, and informal garden setting may show early-1960s home-life details consistent with the supplied Wauconda, Illinois metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the quiet, unstaged action of a woman tending flowers at close range, filmed from a familiar home-movie distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman partly obscured by foliage, dense green leaves, purple globe-shaped blooms, pink blossoms, sunlight, soil shadows, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short cutaway, memory beat, seasonal transition, or visual insert for domestic gardening and mid-century suburban life.
Historical context: The footage offers a small-scale view of household flower gardening in 1960 Wauconda without making broader claims about the neighborhood or family shown.
Research note: A woman is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, likeness, and any property considerations should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1960 8mm woman gardening, Wauconda Illinois home movie flowers, vintage suburban garden, and purple flower bed footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1960 Wauconda material, then related home-movie gardening or summer flower footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1960 Wauconda, Illinois, a woman appears behind a dense garden bed with purple flowers and sunlit green foliage. — A woman tends a flower bed, partly obscured by foliage and purple blooms.

A close 8mm view of the Wauconda garden shows dense green leaves with purple globe-like blooms and pink flowers. — Purple and pink blooms fill a sunlit garden bed.

The garden bed remains in close view, showing layered green foliage, scattered purple blooms, and a few larger pink blossoms. — Close foliage and flowers dominate the frame.

A final close view shows the same flower bed with purple blooms, glossy green leaves, and the dark edge of the 8mm frame. — The shot closes on dense leaves and purple flowers.

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