Web preview · 144px high8mm home movie from 1962 Illinois — green fields, a large earthwork on a hill, and a crane arm silhouette, framed through a car window.
Earthwork and crane on a rural hill, Illinois, 1962.

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Earthwork and crane on a rural hill, Illinois, 1962 — Illinois, 1962

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Catalog year
1962
Location
Illinois, United States
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Still 1 · 0.40s into the source clip
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8mm home movie from 1962 Illinois — green fields, a large earthwork on a hill, and a crane arm silhouette, framed through a car window.

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Illinois USA-1962: Rural Landscape with Construction Site

Illinois USA-1962: Rural Landscape with Construction Site

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Source format: 8mm.

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Date documentation · estimated

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Source reel 2325

Reel label: glenn t evans

Year note: 1962

Location note: moline illinois

Period detail

Earth-moving equipment silhouette on the hill and faded 8mm color palette are consistent with early-1960s grading activity; no date-specific markings visible in frame.

Film character

8mm color stock shows cyan-shifted shadows, mild grain, slight motion blur from the moving vehicle, and darkened edges from filming through the car window.

Historical context

Large-scale earthmoving in rural Illinois in the early 1960s may reflect Interstate Highway System construction or agricultural grading, both of which reshaped the Midwest in this decade.

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No people or faces identified in any frame; construction equipment is distant and unbranded; confirm no private-property restrictions apply to roadside filming before editorial use.

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