Elmwood Park Illinois-1945: Two Snow-Covered Houses In Winter

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Year1945
Decade1940s
LocationElmwood Park, Illinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1945 Elmwood Park Illinois

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Two Snow-Covered Houses In Winter — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1945, this vintage home movie captures two snow-covered houses in Elmwood Park, Illinois. The footage shows a dark brick building with a covered porch and a lighter house with a sloped roof, both blanketed in snow. The images have a distinct purple and green color cast typical of aged film, with visible grain and slight camera shake. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic winter atmosphere from the mid-20th century.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124752573

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1945 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: Elmwood Park, 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s Midwestern winter home-movie requests needing residential exterior cutaways, neighborhood atmosphere, or quiet domestic establishing material.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century residential architecture, snow-covered porches, overhead utility lines, and modest neighborhood houses in Elmwood Park, Illinois.
Home-movie behavior: The brief handheld view has the unstaged feel of a family filmer recording winter conditions around nearby homes rather than a planned architectural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two snow-covered houses, a covered porch, bare winter trees, utility lines, railings, rooflines, and accumulated snow along the foreground.
Film character: The 8mm footage carries visible grain, soft focus, slight handheld movement, and a purple-green aged-film color cast that reads as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short winter insert, residential establishing shot, memory beat, or transition into a 1940s Illinois neighborhood sequence.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for a quiet residential winter setting in the Chicago-area village named in the metadata, without showing people or public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are visible or indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any property-related use concerns for their project.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1945 Elmwood Park Illinois winter houses, 1940s 8mm home movie snow, Midwestern residential exterior, and vintage neighborhood footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with other Elmwood Park or 1945 Illinois footage, then with broader winter home and neighborhood scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1945 Elmwood Park home-movie frame showing a dark brick house, covered porch, bare trees, and snow piled in the foreground. — Snow blankets a brick residential building with a covered front porch.

Elmwood Park winter frame from 1945 showing the same brick house and porch under snow with aged purple-green film coloration. — A snow-covered porch and brick facade fill the frame.

1945 Elmwood Park frame showing a lighter house with a steep snow-covered roof, bare trees, and utility lines crossing the view. — A lighter residential house sits under snow behind overhead utility lines.

Elmwood Park winter frame from 1945 showing a snow-covered sloped-roof house, bare trees, and crossing utility lines. — Snow covers the roof and yard of a residential house in winter.

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