Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: White Barn Burns in Wauconda, Illinois

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

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White Barn Burns in Wauconda, Illinois — Clip Details

A white barn burns fiercely in Wauconda, Illinois, in 1968, with thick black smoke billowing from the roof and flames visible through the eaves. The 8mm home movie captures the dramatic scene from a distance, showing the structure's white exterior against a clear sky, with bare trees and a wooden fence in the foreground. A firefighter in a helmet appears in the final frame, observing the blaze. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, conveying a raw, authentic archival record of a rural fire 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: 124336120

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: Useful for 1960s U.S. home-movie requests needing rural fire response, structure fire, or emergency-scene material from Wauconda, Illinois.
Period detail: The white barn-like structure, open ground, bare trees, fencing, and 8mm color stock support a late-1960s rural or small-town Illinois setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged observer perspective from across a fence, holding on the burning structure as smoke thickens and a firefighter appears near the scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white barn, roof flames, heavy dark smoke, bare trees, grass, fencing, scattered debris, and a firefighter near the building.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, handheld framing, color fading, exposure variation, gate edges, and contact-sheet frame lines as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, emergency cutaway, rural memory beat, or visual bridge in a sequence about fire, loss, or local response.
Historical context: The clip documents a structure fire as seen by a home-movie camera, with the surrounding fence line and open ground suggesting a rural or edge-of-town setting.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, and likeness, property, and incident-identification questions should be reviewed separately from footage copyright status.
Research search match: Searches this may match include 1968 Wauconda barn fire, 8mm structure fire, rural Illinois firefighting, home movie fire response, and burning white barn footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader 1960s fire response or rural emergency scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a white barn burning, with flames along the roofline and smoke rising behind leafless trees. — A white barn burns as flames break from the roofline and smoke drifts across the sky.

A white barn in Wauconda, Illinois burns in 1968, with orange flame at the roof edge and smoke spreading across the pale sky. — Flames flare near the roof edge while smoke spreads above the white structure.

The 8mm view widens to show the burning white barn across grass, fence posts, bare trees, debris, and a plume of dark smoke. — A wider view places the barn fire beyond fence posts and open grass.

A firefighter stands near the burning white barn as dark smoke pours from the roof and flames remain visible in the 1968 Wauconda footage. — A firefighter is visible near the structure as smoke and flames continue from the roof.

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