Wauconda Illinois USA-1960: Men Hoisting A House From Its Position To Move

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

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Men Hoisting A House From Its Position To Move — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures men hoisting a house in Wauconda, Illinois. Three men work together on a wooden platform, using ropes and pulleys to lift the structure. One man in a white shirt and blue pants stands on the platform, while another in a plaid shirt and cap operates the hoist. A third man in a blue shirt assists from below. The house, with its light-colored siding, is surrounded by trees and fallen leaves, suggesting an autumn day. The footage shows the careful, labor-intensive process of relocating a home, with visible film grain and color fading characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era.

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: 123745637

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

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful 1960s Illinois home-movie footage for documentary or educational edits about house moving, rural property work, manual labor, and small-town construction practices.
Period detail: The light siding, wooden porch platform, rope hoist setup, work clothes, and autumn yard may show mid-20th-century residential relocation methods in Wauconda, Illinois.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged observation of men coordinating a difficult lift from close range, with the camera following practical work rather than posed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include three adult men, a light-sided house, porch or platform boards, ropes, a hoist or pulley, autumn leaves, trees, and yard equipment.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, handheld framing, visible grain, color fading, edge vignetting, and uneven exposure that give it clear home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an insert, process cutaway, local-history transition, or memory beat for stories about moving houses, property change, or manual work.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a labor-intensive residential moving task before modern-looking heavy equipment appears in the frames, but the exact method should be verified by researchers.
Research note: Adult faces and a house exterior are visible, so likeness and property context may need review separate from copyright or source licensing questions.
Research search match: Searches such as 1960 8mm house moving, Wauconda Illinois home movie, men hoisting house, residential relocation footage, and vintage property work would match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Wauconda or 1960 Illinois footage, then broader clips of house moving, construction work, or autumn residential scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1960 Wauconda, Illinois, adult men work around a wooden platform and rope setup beside a light-sided house during a relocation effort. — Men coordinate rope work beside the house on a wooden platform.

Two adult men stand on a raised platform by the house while another assists from below, with ropes visible in the Wauconda home-movie frame. — Workers adjust the rope and platform area beside the house.

The men continue the house-moving work near the platform and yard, with autumn leaves and film haze visible in the 1960 Wauconda footage. — The work shifts lower near the platform and leaf-covered yard.

The final frame shows the surrounding Wauconda yard with fallen leaves, trees, shrubs, and a path after the house-moving action leaves view. — The camera looks across the autumn yard near the relocation site.

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