Web preview · 144px high8mm home movie frame, c.1962, Illinois — small white site building and lattice-boom crane on a graded hillside with a large gravel spoil mound.
Construction site overview, Illinois, c.1962 — crane and gravel spoil mound on cleared hillside.

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Construction site overview, Illinois, c.1962 — crane and gravel spoil mound on cleared hillside — Illinois, 1962

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1962
Location
Illinois, United States
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8mm home movie frame, c.1962, Illinois — small white site building and lattice-boom crane on a graded hillside with a large gravel spoil mound.

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Illinois USA-1962: House on Construction Site with Crane

Illinois USA-1962: House on Construction Site with Crane

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Source format: 8mm.

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Source reel 2325

Reel label: glenn t evans

Year note: 1962

Location note: moline illinois

Period detail

Lattice-boom crane and site construction methods visible are consistent with early 1960s American practice; the small white rectangular structure may be a site office or early-stage dwelling.

Film character

8mm grain and characteristic lens vignetting give the footage soft documentary warmth; a muted, slightly faded color palette and minor exposure variation across the pan reinforce period authenticity.

Historical context

The footage may reflect postwar rural-to-suburban land conversion common across Illinois in the early 1960s, when residential and highway development reshaped Midwest landscapes.

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No people or legible brand markings are visible; the small structure may constitute private residential property and should be researched before commercial clearance is assumed.

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