Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Gloomy Day in Park with Trees Blowing and Fire Truck

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

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Gloomy Day in Park with Trees Blowing and Fire Truck — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban street in Wauconda, Illinois. A classic white fire truck and several mid-century American cars are parked along the curb, partially obscured by leafy trees. The scene is viewed through a natural frame of branches, with a distinct blue color cast and film grain characteristic of Super 8 home movies. A person walks near the fire truck as the wind rustles the trees, creating a nostalgic, everyday moment from the late 1960s.

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: 124337348

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 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: Useful for 1960s Midwest suburbia requests needing a quiet exterior cutaway with a fire truck, parked cars, trees, and home-movie atmosphere.
Period detail: The clip shows mid-century cars, a white fire truck, modest residential buildings, and 8mm color stock consistent with the supplied 1968 Wauconda, Illinois metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from a shaded park or yard edge as wind moves through trees and a small figure passes near the fire truck, giving the scene an unstaged neighborhood feel.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include leafless and budding trees, grass, a white fire truck, parked cars, a fence line, residential garages, houses, and a small pedestrian figure.
Film character: The footage has blue color cast, soft focus, grain, gate edges, and slight handheld framing that preserve the scanned 8mm home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief exterior insert, transition, or memory beat for suburban life, emergency vehicles, windy spring weather, or small-town streets.
Historical context: The scene offers everyday visual context for a late-1960s American residential area without making claims about a specific emergency or public event.
Research note: A person is visible at a distance and residential exteriors appear in frame, so likeness and property considerations should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 8mm Wauconda Illinois home movie, suburban street fire truck, windy park trees, and mid-century residential exterior footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Wauconda material, then other 1968 Illinois residential scenes, then broader 1960s suburb, fire truck, park, or windy-day footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame with a white fire truck, parked cars, trees, grass, and residential buildings in the background. — A fire truck and cars sit beyond trees on a gloomy suburban street.

A blue-cast 8mm view of a white fire truck and parked cars near houses in Wauconda, Illinois, with trees framing the scene. — The fire truck remains parked along the residential street behind tree trunks.

The 1968 home-movie frame shows a white fire truck beside a residential garage, with trees, grass, and a small figure nearby. — A small figure appears near the fire truck as trees and a garage fill the background.

A late-1960s Wauconda frame with a white fire truck beside a garage, tree branches overhead, grass in front, and residential buildings behind. — The shot holds on the parked fire truck and garage through a screen of branches.

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