Wauconda Illinois USA-1960: Woman in Swimsuit Walks to Pond with Bucket

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

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Woman in Swimsuit Walks to Pond with Bucket — Clip Details

A woman in a swimsuit walks across a grassy yard toward a pond in Wauconda, Illinois, in 1960. She carries a red bucket and a dark container, then bends down near the water's edge, appearing to dump or fill the bucket. The scene unfolds in a lush, sun-drenched backyard with dense trees and a garden in the foreground. Shot on 8mm film, the footage displays natural color shifts and grain typical of vintage home movies, capturing a quiet moment of domestic life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123744586

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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

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 home-movie requests needing quiet Midwestern backyard pond activity, domestic leisure, or informal summer footage for documentary inserts.
Period detail: The swimsuit, red bucket, simple yard, pond edge, garden growth, and 8mm color stock may show early-1960s domestic outdoor life in Wauconda, Illinois.
Home-movie behavior: The clip records an unstaged household moment as a woman walks across grass and bends near the pond with containers.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a swimsuit, red bucket, dark container, grassy pond bank, still water, dense trees, garden plants, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, handheld framing, and contact-sheet edge darkness that reinforce its home-movie source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief summer cutaway, memory beat, or transition into themes of family yards, ponds, fishing, or domestic routines.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for private outdoor leisure and yard work around a small pond without supporting broader claims about the community.
Research note: A woman is visible but not clearly identifiable, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright status is separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Researcher matches include 1960 Wauconda Illinois 8mm home movie, woman with bucket by pond, backyard lake footage, and vintage summer yard scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel backyard or pond shots, then Wauconda 1960 material, then broader 1960s home-movie themes of water, gardens, summer, and domestic leisure.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Wauconda, Illinois, a woman in a swimsuit crosses a grassy yard toward a pond with a red bucket and dark container. — A woman carries containers across a grassy pond bank in a wooded backyard setting.

The woman bends at the Wauconda pond edge with a red bucket nearby, framed by grass, trees, and garden plants. — The woman bends near the waterline with the red bucket on the grass.

In the 1960 Wauconda backyard pond scene, the woman stands near the red bucket with water and trees behind her. — The woman stands by the red bucket at the edge of the pond.

The woman stands near the Wauconda pond edge with a red bucket and low container, surrounded by grass, water, and trees. — A final view shows the woman and bucket near the pond in the wooded yard.

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