Illinois USA-1947: Family Farm With A Car Parked In The Driveway

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Year1947
Decade1940s
LocationIllinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1947 Illinois

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Family Farm With A Car Parked In The Driveway — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1947, this vintage home movie captures a quiet rural scene in Illinois. A modest white farmhouse stands in a flat, open field under a pale sky. A classic 1940s station wagon with wood paneling is parked in the driveway, its chrome details catching the daylight. The footage shows slight camera movement, panning across the property, with visible film grain, scratches, and dust characteristic of aged Super 8 home movies. The overall mood is nostalgic and still, evoking mid-century American domestic life.

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: 124914873

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1947 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: 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

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 1940s rural Midwest domestic life, farmstead establishing shots, family-history documentaries, and quiet editorial transitions.
Period detail: The wood-paneled station wagon, simple white outbuilding or farmhouse, and open flat landscape support a late-1940s rural Illinois reading.
Home-movie behavior: The brief handheld pan feels like an unstaged family record of a home place, preserving the driveway, building, and parked car rather than a posed event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white rural building, open field, pale sky, driveway area, parked wood-sided station wagon, sparse brush, and film-frame edges.
Film character: Soft focus, faded color, gate weave, dust, scratches, and exposure variation give the scan a clear original 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing insert, memory beat, location transition, or cutaway for mid-century family and farm narratives.
Historical context: The scene reflects a modest rural property view with an automobile beside a plain building, without visible people or identifiable public landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Search matches include 1947 Illinois farm home movie, 1940s rural farmhouse, vintage station wagon driveway, and 8mm Midwest family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Illinois 1947 rural exteriors, then broader 1940s farm and family-home material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1947 Illinois 8mm frame showing a white rural building across a flat field, with no people visible. — A white farm building stands beyond an open field at the start of the shot.

1947 Illinois home-movie frame with a wood-sided station wagon parked near a white rural building. — A 1940s station wagon is parked beside the white building in the driveway area.

1947 Illinois frame showing the parked station wagon closer to the building corner, with open land behind it. — The camera pan brings the parked wagon and building corner into closer view.

End frame from the 1947 Illinois 8mm shot, with the car partly cropped and flat rural land in view. — The shot finishes with the car partly at frame edge and the open field stretching behind it.

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