Wauconda Illinois USA-1960: Boat Filled With People In Lifejackets Pass

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

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Boat Filled With People In Lifejackets Pass — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a small motorboat filled with people wearing life jackets gliding across a calm lake in Wauconda, Illinois. The scene is framed by a dark border, suggesting viewing through a window or lens, with lush green trees lining the far shore and a grassy field in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded colors, and a nostalgic, candid quality, evoking a peaceful summer day of leisure and family adventure.

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: 123744608

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s U.S. leisure, lake recreation, and small-boat family outing requests needing authentic home-movie material.
Period detail: The 8mm color home-movie look, life jackets, small motorboat, and lakeside vegetation may show mid-century summer recreation in Wauconda, Illinois.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged observer's view of people riding together in a small boat across a quiet lake.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm lake, small motorboat, seated passengers in life jackets, grassy foreground, shrubs, trees, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, faded color, gate edges, and slight exposure variation give the footage a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for lakeside vacations, family travel, or summer recreation.
Historical context: The scene documents ordinary outdoor leisure on a wooded lakefront without identifying a specific event, landmark, or named people.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed even though no logos or private interiors are apparent.
Research search match: Search matches include 1960 8mm Wauconda Illinois lake boat, vintage home movie life jackets, and mid-century family boating footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Wauconda or 1960 Illinois footage, then broader lake recreation and family vacation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame showing a small boat moving across a calm lake beyond a grassy bank and trees. — A small boat crosses the lake behind a grassy foreground and dark film-frame edges.

Small boat carrying people, some in bright life jackets, passes along a wooded lake in Wauconda, Illinois in 1960 footage. — Passengers in a small boat pass across the lake near the tree-lined shore.

1960 home-movie view of a small boat carrying seated passengers in life jackets across a calm Wauconda lake. — A boat carrying several passengers glides past the wooded shoreline.

Wauconda, Illinois 1960 frame with a small boat of passengers near the far shore, seen through dark 8mm frame edges. — The boat continues along the lake with trees and shoreline behind it.

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