Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Burning Building in Agricultural Area

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

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Burning Building in Agricultural Area — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a burning agricultural building in Wauconda, Illinois. Smoke billows from the charred wooden structure as flames consume the frame, with farm equipment and fencing visible in the foreground. The footage shows the aftermath of a fire, with the skeletal remains of a barn or shed standing amidst debris. The scene is captured with authentic film grain and a faded purple-blue color cast typical of 1960s home movies, offering a raw, historical glimpse of 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: 124337151

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 1960s rural Illinois fire, farm-disaster, or small-town emergency aftermath sequences needing authentic 8mm home-movie material.
Period detail: The faded 8mm color, simple fencing, open grass, and wooden agricultural structure support a late-1960s rural setting without identifying a specific farm or event.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a fixed outdoor vantage point, preserving an unstaged bystander view of smoke, debris, and a damaged farm structure.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burned wooden frame, smoke haze, scattered debris, grass, fence posts, angled fencing, bare trees, and a small foreground object.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm focus, purple-blue color shift, visible grain, dust, and slight exposure fluctuation that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief insert, cutaway, or transition for rural fire aftermath, emergency memory, or agricultural loss context.
Historical context: The scene visually documents a rural building fire aftermath in Wauconda, Illinois, with no people visible and no confirmed cause shown in the frames.
Research note: No faces, children, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related concerns should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 Wauconda Illinois 8mm fire footage, rural barn fire aftermath, agricultural building burning, and vintage home movie disaster scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then Wauconda or Illinois 1968 material, and then broader rural fire, farm damage, or emergency aftermath footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda 8mm frame showing a burned rural structure, smoke, scattered debris, fencing, and grassy foreground. — Smoke hangs over the charred frame of a rural agricultural building.

1968 Wauconda home-movie frame with smoke rising from a burned agricultural structure behind fencing and grass. — A damaged wooden frame remains standing amid smoke and debris.

Soft 8mm frame from 1968 Wauconda showing smoke over a burned farm structure with fencing and debris in view. — Smoke and film softness obscure part of the damaged agricultural structure.

1968 Wauconda frame showing the skeletal remains of a burned rural building, smoke, trees, fencing, and foreground grass. — The final frame shows the burned structure against trees and lingering smoke.

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