Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: White Barn Engulfed in Flames

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationWauconda, Illinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1968 Wauconda Illinois

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White Barn Engulfed in Flames — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a white barn engulfed in flames and thick smoke billowing from its roof. The structure shows significant fire damage, with charred debris piled against the side. The footage, viewed through a dark frame, exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and scratches, conveying a sense of urgency and loss. This archival clip documents a rural fire disaster, offering raw, unfiltered footage of a 1960s American farm emergency.

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: 124336116

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 1137 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: barn building darrell rd
Reel-level year note: 1968
Reel-level location note: illinois
Date: 1968 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: Wauconda, 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Archival 1960s 8mm footage for edits needing a rural Illinois barn fire, farm emergency, or property-loss incident as documentary evidence or period atmosphere.
Period detail: The white barn, bare trees, split-rail fencing, and color 8mm home-movie stock support a late-1960s rural Midwestern setting consistent with the supplied Wauconda, Illinois metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from a fixed home-movie viewpoint across a fence, recording smoke and flame without staged action or visible responders.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white barn, roof smoke, small flames along the roofline, bare trees, fence rails, scattered debris, dark film-frame borders, and a divided contact-sheet view.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, mild fading, visible scratches, gate edges, uneven exposure, and slight frame variation that mark it as scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an insert, evidentiary cutaway, rural disaster beat, or transition into a sequence about farm fires, emergency aftermath, or community memory.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a barn fire on rural property, with damage and smoke visible but no people, vehicles, firefighters, or cause of the fire shown in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but the barn and surrounding land may be private property, so copyright, property, and location-use questions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois barn fire 8mm, rural barn smoke home movie, white barn on fire 1960s footage, and farm disaster archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader rural fire, farm damage, or 1960s home-movie disaster footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a white barn with smoke along the roofline, bare trees behind it, and debris near the wall. — A white barn smokes from the roofline as debris lies along the side of the structure.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame of a white barn as smoke thickens near the roof and charred material appears beside the structure. — Smoke spreads over the barn roof while the side of the building and nearby debris remain in view.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing heavier smoke over a white barn roof, with leafless trees and scattered material at ground level. — Heavy smoke rises from the barn roof as the camera remains fixed across the fence.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame with smoke and orange flame along the roof of a white barn, plus fence rails and debris in the foreground. — Flame appears along the roofline while smoke drifts above the white barn.

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