Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Red Tractors On A Farm With Fire In The Distance

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

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Red Tractors On A Farm With Fire In The Distance — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a rural farm scene in Wauconda, Illinois. Two red tractors sit on a grassy field surrounded by bare trees, with a large cylindrical tank and farm buildings in the background. A fire burns in the distance, drawing a small crowd of onlookers. The footage is framed by dark tree trunks, giving it a candid, observational feel. The warm, slightly faded colors and film grain evoke a strong sense of Americana and mid-century nostalgia.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124336644

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: Useful for 1960s rural Illinois farm, equipment, and emergency-response context in documentary, museum, education, or period-background edits.
Period detail: The red tractors, open grassy farm lot, bare trees, small outbuildings, and 8mm color stock support a late-1960s rural Midwestern setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from behind tree trunks as people gather near a distant fire, giving the scene an unstaged local-witness perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include red tractors, a cylindrical tank, farm buildings, bare trees, grass, smoke or fire, fencing, and small groups of onlookers.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm grain, slight color fading, dark frame edges, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of a scanned home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural cutaway, emergency-scene insert, period transition, or memory beat around farm life and local incident response.
Historical context: The footage shows rural property, machinery, and residents or responders near a fire, suggesting everyday community observation rather than a staged event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness and context review may be needed; copyright, property, and incident identification should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Searches such as 1968 Wauconda farm fire home movie, red tractors Illinois 8mm, rural Midwest machinery, or vintage farm emergency scene may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel farm or fire footage, then Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader rural machinery and community-response scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda farm scene with red tractors, a cylindrical tank, bare trees, and flames near outbuildings in the distance. — Red tractors sit in a grassy farm lot while a fire burns beyond the trees.

Red tractor, tank, trees, and distant onlookers appear on a Wauconda farm as smoke or flame shows behind the buildings. — A distant group stands near flames behind farm equipment and bare trees.

Rural Illinois farm view with red machinery, bare trees, white buildings, and a fire visible in the background. — Farm equipment remains in the foreground as the fire continues near the buildings.

Wauconda farm scene with a red fire truck, onlookers, trees, fencing, and smoke or flames near outbuildings. — A red fire truck and distant people stand near the fire on the farm property.

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