Moline Illinois USA-1962: Dark Room With Boy Walking In Front Of Bright Window

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationMoline, Illinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 Illinois

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Dark Room With Boy Walking In Front Of Bright Window — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this grainy home movie captures a dark interior with faint light sources. The sequence begins with two distant yellow glows in the blackness, transitions to a blue-tinted screen, then reveals a barred window with bright light filtering through. The footage evokes a sense of mystery and nostalgia, characteristic of vintage Super 8 home movies from the early 1960s. The grainy texture and low-light conditions suggest a candid, unscripted moment captured on film.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: InteriorNight
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124624739

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 2325 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: glenn t evans
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: moline illinois
Date: 1962 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: Moline, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s archival edits needing a brief low-light interior, window cutaway, or memory-like transition from 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames offer few datable clues beyond the 1962 metadata, showing a dark room, small warm light points, blue exposure shift, and a bright gridded window.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged home-movie observation of darkness, exposure change, and passing interior light rather than a clearly identifiable action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include black interior space, two small yellow glows, blue-tinted darkness, a bright barred window, heavy shadows, and soft film grain.
Film character: The clip has a dense 8mm low-light look with visible grain, underexposure, color shift, and handheld home-movie immediacy.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short transition, mood insert, memory beat, or cutaway suggesting an interior space seen through limited light.
Historical context: As 1962 Moline home-movie footage, it may reflect ordinary domestic filming where available light and camera exposure shape the scene more than subject detail.
Research note: No faces, logos, or readable identifiers are visible, but the dim interior should still be reviewed for copyright, location, likeness, and property considerations.
Research search match: Searchable for 1962 8mm dark interior footage, vintage home movie window light, low-light room cutaway, and Moline Illinois archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1962 Moline interiors, then with vintage low-light home-movie or window imagery.

Still Frames From This Clip

Dark 1962 8mm home-movie frame from Moline with two faint warm light points against deep blackness. — Two distant yellow glows appear in an otherwise dark interior frame.

Mostly black low-light 8mm frame with a small warm glow near the upper edge and little visible detail. — A small point of warm light remains visible against the dark frame.

Dim 1962 Moline interior frame with a pale light patch at the upper left and heavy shadow across the room. — A bright patch cuts into the darkness at the edge of the interior scene.

Low-light 8mm frame from Moline showing a bright gridded window with surrounding shadows and a dark foreground shape. — A bright gridded window emerges from the darkness of the room.

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