Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Person Walking Past Burning Barn

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

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Person Walking Past Burning Barn — Clip Details

A dramatic 8mm home movie from 1968 captures a rural barn engulfed in flames, its wooden structure consumed by fire and thick smoke billowing into the sky. A lone figure in dark clothing walks slowly past the burning building, observing the destruction. The scene is bathed in a surreal purple and orange glow from the fire, with bare trees and farm equipment visible in the foreground. The footage, shot on vintage 8mm film, shows natural grain and color shifts characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era, offering a haunting glimpse of a rural disaster.

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: 124336816

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 U.S. disaster, fire response, farm life, or home-movie inserts needing real 8mm footage of a barn burning in Wauconda, Illinois.
Period detail: The scene may show late-1960s rural Illinois through a wooden barn or outbuilding, bare trees, simple fencing, and period 8mm color rendering.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, with a distant person walking near the burning structure as the camera watches from across a yard or roadside.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burning wooden barn, heavy smoke, bare trees, fencing, a mailbox or post, yard debris, and a lone dark-clothed figure.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, purple-orange color shift, uneven exposure, and frame-edge artifacts consistent with physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief disaster insert, rural memory beat, transition into fire aftermath, or cutaway for archival narration about loss or emergency.
Historical context: The clip gives visual context for a rural fire scene without showing emergency vehicles, identifiable agencies, or a confirmed cause of the blaze.
Research note: A person is visible at a distance and property is shown during a sensitive fire event, so likeness, location, and property context should be reviewed separately from copyright.
Research search match: Search matches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois barn fire 8mm, rural building burning home movie, 1960s farm fire footage, and vintage smoke flames 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, disaster, or home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a burning barn, heavy smoke, bare trees, fencing, and a distant person walking past. — A lone figure passes near a smoking barn engulfed in flames.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame with a barn burning intensely, smoke drifting across the structure, and yard posts in the foreground. — Flames spread across the barn as smoke obscures the upper wall.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing the side of a burning barn, smoke haze, bare trees, and a tilted fence in the foreground. — Smoke and flame fill the barn wall while fencing leans in the foreground.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame showing a smoke-filled barn fire, bare trees, low flames in the yard, and posts in front. — The barn remains partly visible through smoke as flames burn along the wall and ground.

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