Wauconda Illinois USA-1960: Garden of Dahlias and Ranch-Style House

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

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Garden of Dahlias and Ranch-Style House — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched garden in Wauconda, Illinois. Lush rows of vibrant red, pink, and yellow dahlias bloom in the foreground, their green foliage dense and healthy. In the background, a white ranch-style house with a flag on a pole sits beyond a grassy yard, framed by trees. The footage has the characteristic grain and color palette of Super 8 film, evoking a nostalgic, peaceful suburban life.

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: 123744530

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 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s Midwestern home-movie requests needing a quiet suburban or country garden cutaway for family-life, place-setting, or seasonal texture.
Period detail: The ranch-style house, open lawn, flagpole, flower beds, and saturated 8mm color support a circa-1960 residential setting without identifying a landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on blooming flowers and the yard from a family vantage point, preserving an everyday household garden rather than a staged event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall dahlias or garden flowers, dense green foliage, a mown lawn, a white ranch-style house, trees, fencing, and a flagpole.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm focus, visible grain, rounded frame edges, slight exposure variation, and handheld stillness typical of amateur color home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a pastoral insert, suburban transition, domestic memory beat, or visual pause between family-life scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for midcentury residential gardening and open-yard life in Wauconda, Illinois, based on supplied location metadata.
Research note: No people, faces, or logos are visible, but the distant residence and location metadata should be reviewed separately from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Researchers might find this under 1960 8mm Wauconda Illinois garden, Midwestern ranch house yard, home movie flowers, or suburban family-life cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel family or yard footage, then Wauconda 1960 material, then broader 1960s Illinois garden or ranch-house home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm view of tall garden flowers, a grassy yard, trees, and a distant white ranch-style house. — Garden flowers fill the foreground with a lawn and white house beyond.

Home-movie frame from Wauconda showing bright garden flowers in front of an open yard and a white ranch-style house. — Red and pink blooms stand against a sunny lawn and distant residence.

1960s 8mm garden view in Wauconda with dahlias or similar blooms, leafy stems, open grass, and a distant white house. — Close garden foliage frames the yard and house in the background.

Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame showing colorful garden flowers, a grassy yard, trees, and a distant ranch-style house. — Colorful flowers and leaves dominate the foreground of a quiet residential yard.

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