Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Barn and Farm Structures Engulfed in Flames

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

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Barn and Farm Structures Engulfed in Flames — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this raw home movie footage captures a devastating farm fire in Wauconda, Illinois. Flames engulf a wooden barn and adjacent structures, with thick black smoke billowing into the sky. The final frame shows firefighters battling the blaze with hoses, attempting to extinguish the inferno. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film adds to the historical authenticity and emotional weight of the scene. This archival footage offers a powerful glimpse into a rural emergency, perfect for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 124336483

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm home-movie footage for productions needing rural emergency response, farm fire, or volunteer firefighting material from Wauconda, Illinois.
Period detail: The frame may show a late-1960s rural Midwestern farm setting, with wooden outbuildings, open grass, hose lines, and firefighters working without modern protective visibility aids.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld viewpoint records an unfolding emergency from a bystander distance, giving the clip unstaged community-witness value rather than formal news coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include burning farm structures, orange flames, black smoke, water streams, hose lines, firefighters, grass yard, bare trees, and nearby small buildings.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, heavy grain, color fading, gate edges, exposure shifts, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, emergency cutaway, rural disaster transition, or memory beat within a sequence about fire, farming, or local response.
Historical context: The footage visually places firefighting in a rural community context, showing responders directing hoses as flames and smoke overtake wooden structures.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, faces are not clearly identifiable, and copyright, likeness, and property considerations should be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois farm fire, 1960s 8mm firefighting, rural barn fire home movie, and firefighters with hose lines.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader rural fire, farm emergency, and firefighting footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a rural farm structure burning with flames, smoke, and charred framing visible. — A farm structure burns as smoke spreads across the yard.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame showing flames moving through a farm outbuilding while smoke obscures the roofline. — Heavy smoke and flames surround the farm outbuilding.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing firefighters directing a hose stream at a smoke-filled farm building. — Firefighters direct water toward the smoke-covered structure.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame showing a firefighter and hose line near a smoking farm building with water spray crossing the scene. — A hose team continues spraying water through smoke in the yard.

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