Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Firefighters Spraying Burning Barn

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

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Firefighters Spraying Burning Barn — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this raw home movie captures a barn engulfed in flames in Wauconda, Illinois. A powerful stream of water sprays the burning structure as thick smoke billows into the night sky. The scene is framed by a wooden fence in the foreground, with the fire's glow casting an eerie purple and orange hue across the rural landscape. The footage shows the desperate firefighting effort against the blaze, with the charred remains of the building visible through the intense flames.

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: 124337021

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 requests needing 1960s rural Illinois home-movie footage of a structure fire or firefighting response for documentary, museum, education, or historical montage use.
Period detail: The 8mm color, wooden fencing, rural yard, and metadata-supported 1968 Wauconda setting place the scene in a late-1960s Midwestern home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from behind a fence at a bystander distance, giving the clip an unstaged witness perspective on an emergency rather than a formal news view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burning wooden structure, orange flames, purple smoke, a directed water stream, fence posts, grass, scattered debris, and a dark foreground obstruction.
Film character: The clip has saturated 8mm color, visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that add physical-film texture to the emergency scene.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for fire, rural loss, emergency response, or community disaster sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a rural structure fire and water spray response in Wauconda, Illinois, without identifying the building owner, cause, or official incident details.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed before final use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1968 8mm Wauconda Illinois barn fire, rural structure fire home movie, firefighters spraying water, and vintage emergency footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1968 Wauconda or Illinois rural footage, then with broader home-movie fire and emergency-response material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 8mm Wauconda, Illinois footage showing water directed at a burning wooden structure behind a fence. — A stream of water reaches the burning structure beyond a wooden fence.

Wauconda, Illinois structure fire with water spray crossing smoke and flames in 1968 home-movie footage. — Water continues to strike the smoke-filled structure as flames show through the wall.

8mm frame of a Wauconda rural structure fire, with flames inside the wall and water spray from the right. — The fire glows through the structure as firefighting water crosses the frame.

Late-1960s home-movie view of a Wauconda, Illinois structure fire framed by fence posts and grass. — Fence posts frame the burning building as water is sprayed across smoke and flames.

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