Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: A Barn Fire Devastates a Rural Farm

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

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A Barn Fire Devastates a Rural Farm — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this archival footage captures a devastating barn fire in Wauconda, Illinois. Bright orange flames engulf a wooden structure, sending thick smoke into the sky as a lone figure watches from a grassy field. The scene is framed by a rustic wooden fence and bare trees, with the warm glow of the fire contrasting against the cool, overcast light. The grainy texture and color saturation are characteristic of vintage home movie footage, offering a raw, nostalgic glimpse into a rural 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: 124336590

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 rural emergency, farm fire, disaster response, or community-history sequences needing authentic 8mm home-movie footage from Wauconda, Illinois.
Period detail: The 1968 date is supported by metadata, while the visible cues are rural fencing, open grass, bare trees, and 8mm color film rather than clearly datable clothing or vehicles.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distance as a person watches the burning structure, giving the clip an unstaged witness perspective on a local emergency.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burning barn or outbuilding, orange flames, heavy smoke, a grassy field, bare trees, fencing, a distant vehicle, and a lone observer.
Film character: The footage has saturated 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, and exposure shifts that preserve the immediacy of a scanned home-movie reel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an insert, disaster cutaway, rural memory beat, or visual transition into a story about farm loss or local emergency response.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a rural barn fire scene and the act of watching from nearby ground, without confirming cause, damage extent, or response details beyond what is visible.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, and copyright, likeness, and property considerations should be reviewed separately before publication or commercial use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 Wauconda Illinois barn fire, rural farm fire home movie, 8mm emergency footage, vintage barn burning, and 1960s disaster scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader rural fire, farm, smoke, or emergency-response footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a barn or outbuilding engulfed in flames with smoke, fencing, grass, and a distant observer. — A person watches flames and smoke consume a rural structure beyond a fence.

The barn fire continues in Wauconda, Illinois, with flames along the structure, smoke overhead, fencing, and a lone figure in the foreground. — Flames spread across the structure while a nearby figure watches from the field.

Wide 8mm view of the Wauconda fire area, with bare trees, grassy ground, smoke in the distance, and vehicles or equipment partly visible. — The camera pulls wider to show the fire scene through trees and open grass.

A later Wauconda fire frame shows smoke beyond trees, a parked vehicle, a small shed-like structure, grass, and scattered objects in the foreground. — Smoke lingers beyond the trees as the rural fire scene is seen from farther back.

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