Wauconda Illinois USA-1960: People Riding In A Motorboat On A Lake

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

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People Riding In A Motorboat On A Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a serene summer day at a lakeside in Wauconda, Illinois. A small motorboat with several people aboard glides across the calm water, leaving a gentle wake. The scene is framed by lush green trees and a grassy shoreline, with a white house and an American flag visible in the distance. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American leisure moment.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 123744624

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: Yes
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 requests needing 1960s Midwestern lake recreation, family leisure, or home-movie boating footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial inserts.
Period detail: The small motorboat, lakeside lawn, American flag, and color 8mm home-movie look support a mid-century recreational setting in Wauconda, Illinois.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged family-observer quality, watching people ride past in a motorboat from a grassy shore near the lake.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small motorboat with passengers, calm lake water, wooded shoreline, grassy bank, reeds, a distant house, and an American flag.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm texture, visible grain, slight exposure variation, muted color, and handheld framing consistent with home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, lakeside cutaway, seasonal transition, or establishing insert for summer leisure in the 1960s.
Historical context: The scene reflects everyday recreational boating and waterfront leisure in a small-town Illinois lake setting without supporting a specific public event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance and a flag or possible marks appear, so copyright, likeness, property, and brand questions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Searches such as 1960s 8mm lake boating, Wauconda Illinois home movie, Midwestern summer lake footage, and vintage family motorboat may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1960 Illinois lake footage, then broader 1960s family vacation and boating scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame of a small motorboat passing a wooded lakeshore from a grassy bank. — A small motorboat moves across the lake past trees and shoreline grass.

A small boat carrying people moves across a wooded Wauconda lake in 1960 home-movie footage. — Passengers ride in a small motorboat as it leaves a wake near the far shore.

The boat continues across the lake in Wauconda, Illinois, framed by grass, reeds, and dense trees. — The motorboat passes the wooded bank, seen from a shaded lakeside lawn.

A Wauconda lakeside view shows an American flag near the water, with a distant house, trees, and small boats. — The view shifts to a lakeside lawn with an American flag and houses across the water.

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