Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: A View Of A Very Large Tree Full Of Fall Colored

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationWauconda, Illinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1968 Wauconda Illinois

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A View Of A Very Large Tree Full Of Fall Colored — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a scenic autumn drive through Wauconda, Illinois. The camera moves steadily along a quiet road lined with mature trees displaying vibrant fall foliage—shades of yellow, orange, and red contrast against lingering green leaves. Overhead power lines stretch across a hazy sky, and a white mailbox stands near the roadside. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight vignetting, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century Americana feel. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 124335739

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 1137 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: barn building darrell rd
Reel-level year note: 1968
Reel-level location note: illinois
Date: 1968 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Wauconda, Illinois, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: 1960s 8mm home-movie footage for requests needing a quiet Midwestern autumn road view, rural-suburban foliage, or period Americana atmosphere.
Period detail: The road, overhead utility lines, mailbox, and mature roadside trees may show late-1960s small-town Illinois streetscape details.
Home-movie behavior: The moving camera records an unstaged drive past fall trees, preserving a casual home-movie view rather than a composed scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a curving two-lane road, large autumn trees, a white roadside mailbox, utility poles, overhead wires, hazy sky, grass verge, and film-edge shadowing.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, mild color shift, slight vignetting, and gate-edge darkness from the physical film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, seasonal transition, rural cutaway, or reflective memory beat between family or regional-history scenes.
Historical context: The footage places fall foliage within an ordinary roadside setting, suggesting everyday local travel rather than a documented public event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, and any property-related questions should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s 8mm Illinois autumn road, Wauconda fall foliage home movie, vintage Midwest drive, and roadside trees Super 8 style.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1968 Wauconda or Illinois road footage, then with broader autumn foliage and rural Americana material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda 8mm frame showing a quiet road lined with fall-colored trees, a roadside mailbox, utility poles, and a hazy sky. — A quiet road curves past mature trees with autumn leaves and a small white mailbox near the verge.

1968 Wauconda frame with fall foliage beside a quiet road, overhead utility wires, roadside poles, and soft 8mm edge shadowing. — Fall-colored trees line the roadside as utility wires cross the pale sky above the curve.

1968 Wauconda 8mm frame showing a closer roadside view of autumn foliage, a small mailbox, utility lines, and the road receding into haze. — The moving camera passes closer to the large autumn tree as the road continues into the distance.

1968 Wauconda frame with a large autumn tree filling the foreground, roadside wires and pole visible against a hazy sky. — A large fall-colored tree fills much of the frame as the road bends away under overhead wires.

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