Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Barn Burning Down While Man Passes By

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

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Barn Burning Down While Man Passes By — Clip Details

WAUCONDA ILLINOIS USA-1968: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a rural barn engulfed in flames, with bright orange fire and thick smoke billowing from its windows. A man in a dark coat and hat walks past the burning structure, observing the blaze. The scene is set in a grassy field with a wooden fence and farm equipment in the foreground, under a dusky sky. The footage shows the intense fire spreading across the wooden building, with a fire truck visible in the background, highlighting a dramatic emergency from the late 1960s. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film adds to the authentic, archival feel of this historical moment.

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: 124336533

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 documentary or educational requests needing rural Midwestern emergency footage of a barn fire filmed on 8mm home-movie stock.
Period detail: The scene may show a late-1960s rural farm setting, with a wooden barn, simple fence line, open grass, and a man in a dark coat and hat visible in the foreground.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unplanned witness perspective as the camera holds on a burning barn while a passerby or observer moves through the scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wooden barn in flames, heavy smoke, a man walking nearby, grass, fence posts, farm equipment, bare trees, and a vehicle or apparatus behind the structure.
Film character: The 8mm footage has saturated fire color, soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, and uneven exposure that support its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, emergency cutaway, rural memory beat, or transition into material about fire, farm life, loss, or local events.
Historical context: The footage visually places a destructive fire within a rural community setting without identifying the cause, owner, or outcome of the incident.
Research note: People and private property appear visible, so copyright, likeness, and property considerations should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Natural matches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois barn fire 8mm, rural barn burning home movie, 1960s farm fire footage, and man walking past burning barn.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader rural fire or farm emergency scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a wooden barn engulfed in flames, with smoke, grass, fence posts, and farm equipment in front. — A rural barn burns as smoke rises over the field and fence line.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame showing a man in a dark coat and hat walking near a burning barn, with smoke and a fence in the foreground. — A man walks past the burning structure as flames and smoke fill the background.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame with a man walking in front of a barn fire, smoke behind the building, and a possible fire vehicle at right. — The passerby remains in the foreground while fire spreads through the barn wall.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame showing the barn still burning, heavy smoke above it, and a dark-clad man near the foreground fence. — Flames continue through the barn as the figure stands or walks near the fence.

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