Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Barn Fire with Firefighters Spraying Water

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

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Barn Fire with Firefighters Spraying Water — Clip Details

A dramatic 8mm home movie from 1968 captures a barn engulfed in flames in Wauconda, Illinois. Firefighters spray water from a hose onto the burning structure as thick smoke billows and the wooden frame collapses. The footage, shot through a darkened window frame, shows a man in a firefighter's helmet observing the blaze. The scene is bathed in the intense orange glow of fire against a cool blue-purple sky, with a wooden fence and scattered farm equipment in the foreground. This authentic archival footage offers a visceral look at a rural emergency from the late 1960s.

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: 124337033

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 documentary or editorial requests needing rural Illinois emergency-response footage of a barn fire recorded on home-movie film.
Period detail: The 8mm color, rural fencing, mailbox, farm debris, and wooden barn construction support a late-1960s home-movie setting in Wauconda, Illinois.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from behind a dark window or frame, giving the scene an unstaged witness perspective as firefighters work outside the filmmaker's position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burning wooden barn, water spray from a hose, smoke, a foreground fence, a roadside mailbox, grass, charred debris, and dark window framing.
Film character: The clip has saturated 8mm color, visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight handheld instability that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, emergency cutaway, rural memory beat, or transition into material about fire response, farm loss, or local history.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a rural structure fire and firefighting response without confirming the cause, ownership, damage extent, or identities of those present.
Research note: People may be present but are not clearly identifiable in these stills; copyright, likeness, location, and property considerations should be reviewed before broad use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 Wauconda Illinois barn fire, 1960s 8mm firefighting footage, rural emergency home movie, and burning farm building archive clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader rural fire, firefighting, farm, and emergency-response footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a barn burning as a hose sprays water across smoke and flames behind a fence and mailbox. — A burning barn is sprayed with water as smoke drifts across the foreground fence and mailbox.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame with bright flames inside a partially burned barn and a firefighter hose stream cutting across the scene. — Water is directed at the barn as flames remain visible along the upper and lower walls.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm still showing smoke surrounding a fire-damaged barn, with visible flames, fence rails, grass, and a roadside mailbox. — Smoke obscures part of the barn while flames continue inside the damaged wooden frame.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame of a charred barn still burning behind a fence, with smoke, flames, a mailbox, and dark foreground framing. — The barn remains charred and smoking, with flames still visible near the right side of the structure.

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