Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Barn Fire with Firefighter and Truck

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

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Barn Fire with Firefighter and Truck — Clip Details

A dramatic 8mm home movie from 1968 captures a barn engulfed in flames in a rural setting. Bright orange fire erupts from the wooden structure, sending thick plumes of dark smoke into the sky. A firefighter in dark gear is visible near the burning building, with a fire truck and hose in the background. The footage shows the fire spreading to nearby debris, with a wooden fence and bare trees framing the scene. Shot on vintage 8mm film, the clip displays natural grain, color shifts, and a slightly shaky camera, conveying a tense, urgent atmosphere.

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: 124336546

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: Supports 1960s rural Illinois fire-response requests needing real 8mm home-movie footage of a barn or outbuilding burning for documentary, education, or museum use.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1960s rural emergency response, with a wood-sided barn, bare trees, simple fencing, and firefighting gear visible in a winter or early-spring landscape.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld camera observes from outside the danger area, holding on flames, smoke, debris, and a distant firefighter rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burning barn, orange flames, heavy smoke, bare trees, a fence, scattered debris, a firefighter, and firefighting equipment near the structure.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries dense grain, soft focus, color shift, gate edges, and uneven exposure that give the emergency scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, emergency cutaway, rural-disaster transition, or memory beat showing fire damage unfolding in real time.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a rural structure fire and local response, but the frames do not establish cause, ownership, injuries, or the official incident record.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, and copyright, likeness, and property considerations should be reviewed separately before reuse.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1968 8mm barn fire, Wauconda Illinois home movie fire, rural structure fire footage, and vintage firefighter emergency scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader rural fire, firefighting, or disaster-response clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda 8mm frame showing a barn engulfed in fire, smoke rising, and a firefighter standing near fencing in the foreground. — A firefighter stands near a fence as flames burn through the side of a rural barn.

The barn burns in the right half of the frame while smoke and flames rise from debris in the yard, consistent with the Wauconda 1968 metadata. — Flames push through the barn wall while smoke spreads over burning debris nearby.

A handheld 8mm view shows heavy smoke, active flames, burned debris, fencing, and the side of the barn during the rural fire. — Smoke thickens around burning debris as the barn wall remains aflame at the edge of the frame.

The final frame shows the barn and surrounding debris still burning, with dense smoke drifting through bare trees in rural Wauconda, Illinois. — Flames continue across debris and along the barn wall as smoke fills the background trees.

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